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Two people pretending they wanted the same thing all along.
means A shared decision or arrangement in which two or more parties commit to the same terms.
from From Old French 'agreement,' built on 'agreer' ('to agree, to please'), itself from the Latin phrase 'ad gratum' — roughly 'toward what is pleasing.' So baked into the word's root is the idea of being agreeable rather than simply correct — it was always more about smoothed-over feeling than verified fact.
- legal twist
- not all agreements are legally enforceable contracts
- silence trap
- silence can legally count as acceptance in some contexts
- handshake deals
- still binding in many courts, if provable
- root meaning
- literally meant to make pleasing, not correct