speak/talk the same language

idiom

: to understand each other well because of shared ideas and feelings

She and I will never get along. We just don't speak the same language.

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Everyone must speak the same language, which is harder to achieve when short-term gains aren’t apparent. —

Ira Belsky, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 Most migrants have family links in Mayotte and speak the same language. —

Sam Mednick and Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 During a time when computers were running extremely complex code, Cobol allowed early mainframe computers to essentially speak the same language, eliminating the need to manually program the same data-processing applications into every new machine. —

IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2024 Collaborate At The Top: CISOs, CIOs and business leaders need to speak the same language. —

Ravi Ithal, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for speak/talk the same language

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