on the same page

prep_phrase — 2 senses

on the same page

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Idiomatic In broad agreement or sharing a common general understanding or knowledge (common in office environments).

  • I want to make sure we're all on the same page with the game plan for the Acme account.
  • Our unions want to see their members protected, and we have no desire to get into conflict with them on this. We're all on the same page.2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Confusion and dissent over face mask requirements”, in RAIL, number 936, page 9:
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  • He later emailed OpenAI’s executives, telling them that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner. “I did not feel we’re on the same page on the damage of all this,” he wrote.2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, quoting Sam Altman, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: on the same page.

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on board, eye to eye

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