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Idioms & Slang 英语习惯
    2016-June-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

   On the same page

    意见一致

    A: We have talked about it plenty of times. All the other people have agreed on a vacation to Spain this summer.

    B: We're not on the same page. I'm not the only one who is not so enthusiastic about Spain. It's so hot in Spain in summer.

    A: Who else doesn't want to go?

    B: You'd better call a meeting this afternoon to find it out yourself.

    Note: This idiom means to "be thinking in a similar fashion, to have the same amount of knowledge, or to have the same kind of understanding about a situation as others do." It's easy to imagine that when people sing in the church, they have to be on the same page of the hymnal to be able to sing in harmony. The first citation of the phrase in the OED is from 1965. Introduced as a slang term being used chiefly in the United States, it could have been in spoken language earlier.

    

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