eye-to-eye

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eye-to-eye (comparative more eye-to-eye, superlative most eye-to-eye)

  1. Facing the person under discussion.
    • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, page 30:
      So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)
    • 2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, page 44:
      There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.
    • 2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, page 139:
      But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.

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