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compare notes

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compare notes
if two people compare notes, they tell each other what they think about something that they have both done. We'd had the same boyfriend at different times in our life so it was quite interesting to compare notes.
See also: compare, note


compare notes
to exchange information and opinions. We met at the coffee shop to compare notes on our new boss. The two sisters always compared notes.
See also: compare, note


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It is cheerful to meet a shipmate in these out-of-the-way places and compare notes with him.
Obviously Mary suspicioned me, but nevertheless, I clung to Timothy, though I wished fervently that I knew more about him; for I still met that other father occasionally, and he always stopped to compare notes about the boys.
There was my fellow-workman--Mill--(the first member of our society betrayed by Screw) to compare notes with; and there was a certain prisoner who had been transported, and who had some very important and interesting particulars to communicate, relative to life and its chances in our felon-settlements at the Antipodes.
 
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