- Came across
- Came across weird need to keep counter covered
- Came up against
- Met
- Met by chance
- Met ten, cured one perhaps
- Was faced with
- Made concessions
- Met halfway
- Mutually settled
- Undermined
- of Compromise
- Anachronistic
- Estimated age of old hat
- Is it unfashionable to have estimated age?
- Met socially
- No longer fashionable
- Old fashioned
- Old hat