common ground
noun1
Idiomatic A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
- The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.
- You'll say, we've got nothing in common No common ground to start from And we're falling apart1993 October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Home, performed by Deep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:
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- On Monday, he tasked his third prime minister in 12 months, Sébastien Lecornu, to try again to find common ground between political parties dead set against doing so.2025 October 11, Sylvie Kaufmann, “How domestic deadlock brought Macron back to earth”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, ground; especially, common land.
- Related terms
- common, common good, commonplace, make common cause, res communis, the commons, well-grounded