词汇 | agree to disagree |
词源 | agree to disagree. To agree to disagree, to remain friendly while holding differing opinions, is considered an American- ism by many writers. But in 1948 a writer in Notes and Queries reported finding the expression in a 1770 sermon of English theologian John Wesley, founder of Methodism. What’s more, he found the phrase in quotation marks, suggesting that Wesley hadn’t invented it but had heard it elsewhere. |
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