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see eye to eye

see eye to eye verb: to agree, especially in every respect; to concur; to get along.

Verb

see eye to eye (third-person singular simple present sees eye to eye, present participle seeing eye to eye, simple past saw eye to eye, past participle seen eye to eye)

  1. (idiomatic) To agree, especially in every respect; to concur; to get along.
    • But the friend merely spoke of his friend; and since no two people in the world see eye to eye, the picture conveyed to Collinson was inaccurate.1899 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The Flag of Their Country”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 206
    • In the course of their professional career they did not often hear their superior make many suggestions with which they saw eye to eye, but he had certainly, in their opinion, spoken a mouthful now.1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Bomb”, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 52

see eye to eye meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

see eye to eye in Tamil

ஒத்துப்போ, இணங்கியிரு, உடன்படு

see eye to eye in Malayalam

be in agreement, agree, concur
കണ്ണോടുകൺ കാണുക, പരിപൂർണ്ണയോജിപ്പുണ്ടാകുക, യോജിക്കുക, പൊരുത്തപ്പടുക, എല്ലാവിധത്തിലും യോജിക്കുക, ഏകാഭിപ്രായമായിരിക്കുക

Forms of see eye to eye

third-person singular presentsees eye to eye
present participleseeing eye to eye
pastsaw eye to eye
past participleseen eye to eye
alternative formsee eye-to-eye

Questions about see eye to eye

What does see eye to eye mean?
See eye to eye means to agree, especially in every respect; to concur; to get along.
What is see eye to eye in Tamil?
See eye to eye in Tamil is ஒத்துப்போ, இணங்கியிரு, உடன்படு. See See eye to eye meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is see eye to eye?
See eye to eye is a verb.
What is the past tense of see eye to eye?
The past tense of see eye to eye is saw eye to eye.

Words near see eye to eye in the dictionary

  1. see beyond the tip of one's nose
  2. see coming
  3. see daylight
  4. see dollar signs
  5. see double
  6. see eye to eye
  7. see fit
  8. see for oneself
  9. see here
  10. see how
  11. see how the cookie crumbles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: see eye to eye (page history and authors); see eye to eye (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); see eye to eye (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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