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if two people are at cross purposes, they think that they are talking about the same thing when in fact they are not
Hold on, I think we may be talking at cross purposes.
if two people, plans, or actions are at cross purposes, they are trying to achieve different things that do not agree with each other
Police and community leaders found they were working at cross purposes.
