See eye to eye meaning?

Question

What is the meaning of "to see eye to eye" idiom?

Answer 1

 

Idiom Conjugations:

 

Answer 2

Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Seeing eye to eye with your boss can help to make a harmonious workplace.
 

Answer 3

Idiom Usage:

Often used in the form:

see eye to eye with someone

Often used in the negative:

We don't see eye to eye.  (We don't agree on a certain subject)
They don't see eye to eye.  (They don't agree on a certain subject)
You don't see eye to eye with your neighbor.  (You and your neighbor don't agree on a certain subject)

 

Answer 4

Idiom Scenario 2:

Ned's mother, Anna, is coming to visit Ned and Grace.   Usually, when Anna comes, Grace and Anna argue a lot.  Grace and her mother-in-law do not agree on many issues, most especially on how to look after Ned.  Grace is going to try to talk to and understand her mother-in-law.

Grace wants to see eye to eye with her mother-in-law.

Answer 5

Idiom Scenario 1:

The government has decided that it will make recycling mandatory.  It will give fines for people who do not follow the recycling laws.  The government believes that this new consumer recycling law is the best solution to help the environment.  A group of two hundred people have gathered at the government house to protest this new regulation.  The people say that it is not consumers that can make the biggest impact on saving the environment but that it is big industry that could really make a difference.

The people do not see eye to eye with the government.

Answer 6

Idiom Definition:

"to see eye to eye"

to agree about something with another person or group of people
 

Synonyms: concert, concord, concur, concurrence, conform, conformity, congruent, congruence, congruency, correspond, correspondence, harmony, harmonize, rapport, sympathy, unanimity, unanimous
 
 

 

These two people are literally and idiomatically seeing eye to eye. - - - - ->