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compare notes

idiom
Meaning

To exchange information and ideas about related experiences.


Examples
SIMPLE

Let's compare notes after the meeting.

CONTEXTUAL

After the exam, the students gathered in the library to compare notes on the most difficult questions.

COMPLEX

The researchers decided to compare notes regarding their recent findings, hoping that sharing their data would reveal a pattern they had previously overlooked.

Anchors to
Related idioms1entry
  1. 01

    hit the high notes

    To produce or attain, at least for a period of time, an especially satisfactory degree of achievement or fulfilment.

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