Eye-to-eye

Quick meaning: Eye-to-eye is an adverb meaning Facing the person under discussion.

Meaning

Facing the person under discussion.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include head-to-head, ocularly, abreast, eyeward, earwards, endwise.

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