eye-to-eye

comparative more eye-to-eye · superlative most eye-to-eye · alternative eye to eye

1. Facing the person under discussion.

   So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)

   2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, page 30

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   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.

   2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, page 44

   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.

   2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, page 139