speak the same language

Idioms  

1. Understand one another very well, agree with each other, as in Negotiations went on for days, but finally both sides realized they weren't speaking the same language. This term, alluding to literal understanding of spoken words, dates from the late 1800s.

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Example Sentences

If Danny could speak the same language as dogs, he imagined it would be translated into What did I do?

From Literature

Jeb shooed his sister away, then chewed on his piece of grass awhile before he said, “Must be kind of lonely out there in the world, not knowing anybody. And if you do meet somebody, they don’t speak the same language.”

From Literature

“If you and I went together, we’d speak the same language.”

From Literature

“We speak the same language,” Pierre explains as they go over the specific cut of fabric.

From The Wall Street Journal

Of course, we speak the same language... it helps sometimes but he was the coach that I felt that I improved a lot under and helped me to take a step higher with my football.

From BBC