to agree to disagree
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4.1
- idiom
- Informal
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- And I think we'll have to respectfully agree to disagree.
- just agree to disagree
And, you know, can we just agree to disagree and live free?
- And, you know, can we just agree to disagree and live free?
- And I'm like, we can agree to disagree on one of them.
- What you have to do is just agree to disagree.
- If what's nice about this is that we can agree to disagree and history will be the one that decides.
- And and he didn't convince me that it was visual and we agreed to disagree.
- To me, if you say, let's agree to disagree, it means that I need to stop trying to persuade and I need to start trying to learn.
- Reasonable people can agree to disagree on how to confront terrorism, but if you want to torture people, you have to change the law.
- But I don't feel like you're saying the exact words we can agree to disagree.
- I would agree to disagree that Swiss Chard is one of the prettiest crops in the garden.
- Maybe we'll go back to bananas eventually right very good reasons why we won't while we can disagree, we can agree to disagree on this.
- It's an unspoken but recognized truth in the relationship, a love that can persist despite and agree to disagree.
Examples
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Again, I believe we'll have to agree to disagree.
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Then we'll just agree to disagree.
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And, you know, can we just agree to disagree and live free?
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And I think it's, it's like we have to agree to disagree on some points.
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I think we'll just have to agree to disagree then.
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We will agree to disagree.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that
Blog text (24) -
Hey, let's agree to disagree.
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There comes a point in an argument where you have to learn to just agree to disagree.
Blog text (27) -
In discussions, it's often best to just agree to disagree and move on.
Antonyms
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is literally composed of 'agree' + 'to' + 'disagree' and means to accept that you and someone else hold differing opinions; the infinitival 'to' simply links the verbs. A B1 learner who knows 'agree' and 'disagree' can readily derive this meaning, and similar constructions exist in many languages, making the expression transparently compositional.
Etymology
The phrase agree to disagree gives a clear picture: two people shake hands and make a small deal to stop arguing even though they still disagree. They both agree to keep their different views, so the phrase means 'to accept that people have different opinions and decide not to argue'.