meeting of the minds

Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

As I got older and returned home from college for the holidays, I would join Gigi and my cousins Caroline and Elizabeth at Olive Garden for a meeting of the minds.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

“Undersigned” is purely a meeting of the minds, and those who treat it seriously will find it most revealing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

"We would like to resolve this issue," said Mr Malaya, but admitted that "progress is slow and there is, at present, no meeting of the minds".

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023

At an April meeting of the minds in London, the financier Staveley—who had helped put together the Saudi wealth fund’s takeover of Newcastle United Football Club—presented a slide deck titled “The Best of Both Worlds.”

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2023

Surely the generals could come to some meeting of the minds.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby