meet halfway
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- (intransitive, idiomatic, of two parties) To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.
- 2005, Paul Laurence Dunbar et al., The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ISBN 9780821416440, p. xxii:
- Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway.
- 2010, Robert Swartwood, Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words Or Fewer, ISBN 9780393338461, p. 24:
- In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill in the rest.
- 2005, Paul Laurence Dunbar et al., The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ISBN 9780821416440, p. xxii:
- (transitive, idiomatic) To compromise with or to accommodate.
- 1919, B. M. Bower, The Thunder Bird, ch. 11:
- So please, dear, won't you let us come up and talk nicely together? . . . [W]e can get you out of this scrape if you will meet us halfway and be a nice sensible boy.
- 1922, William MacLeod Raine, Man Size, ch. 11:
- [T]imes are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet it halfway with the glad hand.
- 1959, "Geneva: The Eighth Week," Time, 3 Aug.:
- "Mr. Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness."
- 1919, B. M. Bower, The Thunder Bird, ch. 11:
- (rare, transitive, idiomatic) To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions.
- 1947, "Italy: A Clock for Fiumicino," Time, 1 Sept.:
- Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway."
- 1947, "Italy: A Clock for Fiumicino," Time, 1 Sept.:
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