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

But clearly, they had reached some sort of meeting of the minds.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2023

"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

Russell: They have this real electricity and meeting of the minds that no one else has with Kate, and no one puts up with Kate like Hal does.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Later both brothers will refer to it as a meeting of the minds, of the time they made a pledge to each other.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman