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meet halfway

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

Usage examples of "meet halfway".

There are times when I wish we could meet halfway: I could become more like a wild Big Ugly and you wild Tosevites could become more like citizens of the Empire.

But he did not go to Columbus, and she did not come to Spencerville, nor did they meet halfway.

Often, as I try to explain what the place I come from is like, and about the war and my monitoring of the weather, or when she describes the myths and rovings and bickerings of her tribe, we meet halfway.

Xanth folk come here to the O-Xone and pretend to be Mundanes, and I guess Mundanes try to pretend to be Xanthians, mostly in their X-Xone, and maybe soon they can meet halfway.

And, she had pointed out, during those months when she was making a movie, they could always meet halfway, at Cosmo’.