compare notes

present singular third person compares notes · participle present comparing notes · participle past compared notes · past compared notes

1. idiomaticTo exchange information and ideas about related experiences.

   It follows, of course, that when people from different countries with different moneys compare notes they find that their ideas are in conflict.

   2014, Irving Fisher, The Money Illusion

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   Two minutes are allowed "Condor" at Carlisle, and those involved had no time to compare notes on the state of the nation, the management, the unions or the racing calendar.

   1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 47

   Priscilla's only problem in the first trimester was fatigue. She said, "It helped to compare notes with women who had many more discomforts than I did."

   2005, Judith Rogers, The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, page 194

   They cultivate rootlessness and cynicism, shout ironic encouragement from the sidelines of football fields, compare notes on the boring ineffectuality of adults, compare notes on ventures in piss-taking, indolently lay sardonic plans for the future.

   2009, Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts, Conversations with Julian Barnes, page 3