"eye-to-eye" meaning in English

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      "form": "most eye-to-eye",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, page 30",
          "text": "So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, page 44",
          "text": "There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.",
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          "ref": "2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, page 139",
          "text": "But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.",
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        "Facing the person under discussion."
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          "word": "eye to eye"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "vo četiri oči",
          "sense": "facing the person under discussion",
          "word": "во четири очи"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "facing the person under discussion",
          "word": "öga mot öga"
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  "word": "eye-to-eye"
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      "word": "eye to eye"
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      "roman": "vo četiri oči",
      "sense": "facing the person under discussion",
      "word": "во четири очи"
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      "word": "öga mot öga"
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