Englishsee eye to eye
Meaning: To agree.
Example: “My brother and I don't see eye to eye on politics.”
Origin: Drawn from Isaiah 52:8 in the King James Bible: "thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion." In its original context the phrase meant something closer to seeing face to face, with one's own eyes, once a promised event had actually come to pass — not agreement between two people at all. The modern sense, sharing the same opinion, is generally considered a later reinterpretation of the biblical wording rather than its intended meaning, but it's the sense that stuck.
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