cross purposes

noun

Translation

at cross purposes › If two people are at cross purposes, they do not understand each other because they are talking about different things but do not know this.

birbirinin ne dediğini düşünmeden/anlamadan konuşma

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(Definition of cross purposes noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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