MEETING OF THE MINDS Definition & Meaning

meeting of the minds

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Idioms and Phrases

Agreement, concord, as in The teachers and the headmaster had a meeting of the minds regarding smoking in school . This expression uses meet in the sense of “arrive at mutual agreement,” as clergyman Edward B. Pusey did in a letter of 1851: “Devout minds, of every school ... meet at least in this.”

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“Undersigned” is purely a meeting of the minds, and those who treat it seriously will find it most revealing.

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Adapting the book series required several changes, and Steinberg says there was “a very quick meeting of the minds” between Riordan, his wife Rebecca, who is an executive producer, and the rest of the production team about choosing which moments best captured the tone, spirit and heart of the book series.

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Ms. Ernst suggested a meeting of the minds.

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We had a productive meeting of the minds, and the project manager told me I was the first person to come up with a great plan on how to handle all the water coming off the hillside.

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“In a criminal conspiracy case like this one, the most difficult task for the prosecutors is proving the agreement – the meeting of the minds required by conspiracy charges,” Paul Saputo, a Texas-based defense attorney, told Salon.

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