agree to disagree
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agree to disagree (third-person singular simple present agrees to disagree, present participle agreeing to disagree, simple past and past participle agreed to disagree)
- (idiomatic, of two persons or other parties) To tolerate one another's opinion and stop arguing; to acknowledge that an agreement will not be reached.
- I know we're never going to agree on the merits of vegetarianism so let's agree to disagree, shall we?
- 1931, Cyrus Hall McCormick III, The Century of the Reaper, page 29:
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tolerate one another's opinion and stop arguing
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