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Bepleased Posted 15 years ago
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About the language operation in [eye to eye]

Hi,

Could any native to right my naive ideas about [eye to eye]?

I see eye to eye with my wife. -----(of me) Connected with my wife, I can see the thoughts or ideas about something pass through the two person's eye in exchange.

[eye to eye]-----(of me) from that eye to this eye;

Thank you very much in advance.
  

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Hi, Could any native to right my naive ideas about [eye to eye]? I see eye to eye with my wife. --(of me) Connected with my wife, I can see the thoughts or ideas about something pass through the two person's eye in exchange.

— Clive

  • Hi, Could any native to right my naive ideas about [eye to eye]?
  • I see eye to eye with my wife.
  • --(of me) Connected with my wife, I can see the thoughts or ideas about something pass through the two person's eye in exchange.
  • [eye to eye]--(of me) from that eye to this eye; No.
  • It means that my wife and I have the same opinions about things.
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Hi,

Could any native to right my naive ideas about [eye to eye]?

I see eye to eye with my wife. --(of me) Connected with my wife, I can see the thoughts or ideas about something pass through the two person's eye in exchange.

[eye to eye]--(of me) from that eye to this eye;

No. It means that my wife and I have the same opinions
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Hi,

How does [eye to eye] make / provide my wife and I with a strong reason for having the same opinion anout things?

Thank you again.
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Hi,

It's an idiom. It's often hard to figure out why we say such things.

My earlier suggestion was that maybe the idea is that "We see things in the same way, figuratively speaking".

Here is an exampl
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Hi,

To talk with you brings me meet with enlightenment.

The intrinsic operation of that sentence may be in this way:

[I see in a way in which to relate eye with me to eye with my wife.]

[to relate ....to]= to have my eye a connection with my wife eye

Could any native speaker right my naive idea?

Thank y
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[to relate ....to]---to show a connection between

I see eye to eye with my wife = I see after to establish a connection betwee my eye to the eye with my wife.
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bepleased[to relate ..to]---to show a connection betweenI see eye to eye with my wife = I see after to establish a connection betwee my eye to the eye with my wife.
or I see eye to eye with my wife = I see in establishing a connectuon between my eye to the eye with my wife
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or I see eye to eye with my wife = I see with my eye that is perfect in accord with the eye connected with my wife.
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