Idiom
meeting of the mindless
Meaning
A serious disagreement, especially one resulting from a gathering in which discussion or negotiation took place.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The committee meeting was a total meeting of the minds.”
“We need a meeting of the minds before we sign the lease.”
“The coach hopes for a meeting of the minds during the team meeting.”
“After hours of debating the new contract, the two managers finally reached a meeting of the minds.”
“The neighbors reached a meeting of the minds about the fence after talking for an hour.”
“The designers and engineers finally had a meeting of the minds on the car's safety features.”
“Both families had a meeting of the minds regarding where to spend the summer holidays together.”
“Despite their long-standing professional rivalry, the two scientists eventually achieved a meeting of the minds regarding the experimental methodology.”
Examples
simple
“The committee meeting was a total meeting of the minds.”
“We need a meeting of the minds before we sign the lease.”
“The coach hopes for a meeting of the minds during the team meeting.”
contextual
“After hours of debating the new contract, the two managers finally reached a meeting of the minds.”
“The neighbors reached a meeting of the minds about the fence after talking for an hour.”
“The designers and engineers finally had a meeting of the minds on the car's safety features.”
“Both families had a meeting of the minds regarding where to spend the summer holidays together.”
complex
“Despite their long-standing professional rivalry, the two scientists eventually achieved a meeting of the minds regarding the experimental methodology.”
Origin
Formed by analogy with the 19th-century legal concept of a meeting of the minds. The construction swaps the original sense of mutual agreement for a suggestion of collective intellectual absence.
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