Meaning of meet halfway | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.
   idiomatic, intransitive
2. To compromise with or to accommodate.
   idiomatic, transitive
3. To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions.
   idiomatic, rare, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have⟳ previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet⟳ halfway.”

“In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet⟳ halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill⟳ in the rest⟳.”

“So please⟳, dear, won't you let⟳ us come⟳ up and talk⟳ nicely together? . . . [W]e can get⟳ you out of this scrape if you will meet⟳ us halfway and be a nice sensible boy.”

“[T]imes are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet⟳ it halfway with the glad hand.”

“"Mr. Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake⟳ the moves we have⟳ made to meet⟳ him halfway as signs of weakness."”

“Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest⟳ that the differences be met halfway."”

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