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meet (one) halfway

To compromise with someone, often in an argument or disagreement. I'll agree to some of your requests if you'll meet me halfway and allow me to implement some of my ideas. Hey, buddy, please meet your mother and I halfway and at least try to clean your room once a month, OK? Can we meet halfway on this? I'm willing to compromise.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

meet someone halfway

Fig. to compromise with someone. No, I won't give in, but I'll meet you halfway. They settled the argument by agreeing to meet each other halfway.
See also: halfway, meet
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • meet (one) halfway
  • meet somebody halfway
  • meet someone halfway
  • go halfway
  • have an argument
  • have an argument (with someone)
  • have a bone to pick, to
  • a difference of opinion
  • arguing for the sake of argument
  • see both sides (of something)
References in periodicals archive
The release quotes him as saying at the Annual Plenary Session of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines on Monday that "there must be a 'convergence point' in which both groups 'can meet halfway.'"
Unfortunately, we were not ready to accept the other, dialogue with him, and meet halfway."
"They really want to meet halfway," a Ukrainian diplomat told Europolitics, particularly emphasising the change of Germany's position towards a more "balanced approach".
''I believe there is a need for the top leaders to make a political decision at some point,'' Aso said, adding the issue will never be resolved unless both parties meet halfway.
rated hurdlers in training and the best over their respective distances of two and three miles - would meet halfway in the two-and-a-half-mile Pricewaterhousecoopers Ascot Hurdle, a race Baracouda has won for the last two seasons.
Maybe both moms could meet halfway. If the mall's midpoint, why not meet there?
Asked if he would meet halfway people who may want to broach a solution, Keane replied: ``I want to play for Ireland - we will have to see.
Asked if he would meet halfway people who may want to broach a solution for the good of the country, he said: 'I want to play for Ireland - we will have to see.
He'd wanted her to be buried nearby, but soon after that she went back to America, and never returned," he said, before adding: "But it's said their ghosts meet halfway, at Rockall, once a year.
Ellen lives in Hertfordshire and John in Norwich, so they arranged to meet halfway in a cafe in Cambridge.
As Filipinos, we tried to meet halfway and try to reach their standards.
It is probably what's best for two people who can never meet halfway.
Ipswich tweeted: "#itfc have been handed an away tie (I think) against Crystal Palace in the second round of the Carabao Cup", leading to a response from Palace: "Let's meet halfway?" The clanger, which follows Charlton being drawn twice in round one, had echoes of cup fiascos in Scotland.
Despite the disagreement between the two remaining name partners of the firm, Korsh said that Harvey and Louis will eventually meet halfway with the help of Donna.
In this context, he regretted that the Lebanese gather around the problems and do not seek to find solutions, saying "we collect the waste...we gather disorders, not peace." The Minister then called on citizens to meet halfway, despite their regions, religions or denominations.