meeting of (the) minds
meeting of (the) minds
A situation in which two or more people reach an understanding or agreement. There was a meeting of the minds between finance industry leaders and law enforcement in order to help curb financial fraud. After debating for hours, we finally came to a meeting of minds and decided on a name for our band.
See also: meeting, mind, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
meeting of the minds
the establishment of agreement; complete agreement. After a lot of discussion we finally reached a meeting of the minds. We struggled to bring about a meeting of the minds on the issues.
See also: meeting, mind, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
meeting of the minds
Agreement, concord, as in The teachers and the headmaster had a meeting of the minds regarding smoking in school. This expression uses meet in the sense of "arrive at mutual agreement," as clergyman Edward B. Pusey did in a letter of 1851: "Devout minds, of every school ... meet at least in this."
See also: meeting, mind, of
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
a meeting of minds
an understanding or agreement between people.See also: meeting, mind, of
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
a meeting of ˈminds
people thinking in the same way about something; a special understanding between people: I think there will be a meeting of minds on this subject. The discussions were a failure. There was no meeting of minds between the two parties.See also: meeting, mind, of
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
meeting of the minds
Agreement; concord.
See also: meeting, mind, of
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- a meeting of minds
- meeting of the minds
- reach an understanding with
- meeting of the minds, a
- talk past each other
- talk past one another
- same
- You don’t know the half of it
- You don't know the half of it
- not know the half of it