come to terms
Idioms-
Reach an agreement, as in The landlord and his tenants soon came to terms regarding repairs . [Early 1700s]
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come to terms with . Reconcile oneself to, as in He'd been trying to come to terms with his early life . [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
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“The first thing that you have to come to terms with as an actor is being rejected,” Lindo says of the casting process.
I struggled after the interview to come to terms with it all - it was like someone had replaced the guy I played with.
From BBC
Her husband, Sam, said: "We have to come to terms that we are never going to find out the truth of what actually happened with him and how he was looked after - it's just something we are just going to have to live with."
From BBC
“This has been an incredibly hard few days. Probably the hardest of my life. I still have not come to terms that he is gone…” Vonn wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
Speaking for the first time, Hazel Jones, 31, said the trauma of losing April has "shaped her life" and she still cannot come to terms with it.
From BBC
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