eye-to-eye

English

Alternative forms

• eye to eye

Adverb

eye-to-eye (comparative more eye-to-eye, superlative most eye-to-eye)

1. Facing the person under discussion.
   • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, page 30:

     So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)

   • 2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, page 44:

     There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.

   • 2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, page 139:

     But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.

Translations

facing the person under discussion

• Macedonian: во четири очи (vo četiri oči)
• Swedish: öga mot öga (sv)

See also

• see eye-to-eye