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To share the same understanding, expectations, or position as someone else regarding a plan, situation, or set of facts.

It’s often used to check for or confirm alignment before proceeding with joint work, and can also describe a natural rapport between people who think alike.

The most commonly cited explanation ties the phrase to situations where a group needs to follow the same physical text together — a choir singing from a shared hymn sheet, or colleagues in a meeting all reading from the same printed document — so that everyone is synchronized and no one is lost or lagging behind. This literal image of shared, simultaneous reading translates naturally into the figurative sense of shared understanding, and the expression became common in American business and general use by the mid-20th century. Because coordinated group reading was a routine part of religious, educational, and administrative life for centuries before the phrase’s rise in popularity, the specific originating context (choir, classroom, or office) is difficult to pin down with certainty, though all point to the same underlying logic of literal synchronization.

Before we launch the campaign, let’s make sure everyone is on the same page.

The two co-founders have always been on the same page about the company’s mission.

After the meeting, I felt like we finally got on the same page about the budget.

A: Are we still doing the presentation together? B: Yes, we’re on the same page about that.