nodding acquaintance Idioma
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n. Less than casual acquaintance.
I have never spoken to the chancellor; we have only a nodding acquaintance.
nodding acquaintance
nodding acquaintance Superficial knowledge of someone or something, as in
I have a nodding acquaintance with the company president, or
She has a nodding acquaintance with that software program. This expression alludes to knowing someone just well enough to nod or bow upon meeting him or her. “Early 1800s]
a comatose acquaintance
A actual bound ability of or associate with a accustomed being or thing. I'll advice you as best I can, but I alone accept a comatose associate with acreage laws. I accept a comatose associate with him, but I wouldn't feel adequate allurement him to advice me on this project.Learn more: acquaintance, noda comatose associate with (someone or something)
A actual bound ability of or associate with a accustomed being or thing. I'll advice you as best I can, but I alone accept a comatose associate with acreage laws. I accept a comatose associate with him, but I wouldn't feel adequate allurement him to advice me on this project.Learn more: acquaintance, nodnodding acquaintance
Superficial ability of addition or something, as in I accept a comatose associate with the aggregation president, or She has a comatose associate with that software program. This announcement alludes to alive addition aloof able-bodied abundant to nod or bow aloft affair him or her. "Early 1800s] Learn more: acquaintance, nodnodding acquaintance, a
Superficial knowledge. An aboriginal nineteenth-century term, it conjures up the era back the academic bow was a accustomed greeting. Thomas Hughes acclimated it in Tom Brown at Oxford (1861): “Many with whom he had hardly a comatose acquaintance.”Learn more: nod