Idiom
agree to disagree
Meaning
To accept each other's opinions and cease arguing; to peacefully acknowledge that an agreement will not be reached.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We can't agree, so let's agree to disagree.”
“After an hour of debate, they decided to agree to disagree and move on to the next topic.”
“The two scholars, having argued for decades over the interpretation of the text, finally agreed to disagree, each publishing their rival theories in respectful silence.”
Examples
simple
“We can't agree, so let's agree to disagree.”
contextual
“After an hour of debate, they decided to agree to disagree and move on to the next topic.”
complex
“The two scholars, having argued for decades over the interpretation of the text, finally agreed to disagree, each publishing their rival theories in respectful silence.”
Key words
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