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eye to eye

Adverb

Meaning

eye to eye (comparative more eye to eye, superlative most eye to eye)

Alternative form of eye-to-eye

eye-to-eye (comparative more eye-to-eye, superlative most eye-to-eye)

Facing the person under discussion.

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eye-to-eye

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Examples

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. James Thurber

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad. Billy Joel

Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close. Sarah Dessen

As a man, if you got a problem with somebody, you sit down face to face and you talk to them eye to eye. And you hash it out and move on. LeBron James

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that. Beau Bridges

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