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hail-fellow-well-met
hail-fel·low (hāl′fĕl′ō) also hail-fel·low-well-met (-wĕl′mĕt′)adj. Heartily friendly and congenial.
[From the obsolete greeting hail, fellow!]
hail′-fel′low n.hail-fellow-well-met adj genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way: a hail-fellow-well-met slap on the back. hail-fellow-well-metUsed to describe a person or attitude that is overly, often falsely, friendly.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  hail-fellow-well-met - heartily friendly and congenial comradely, hail-fellowfriendly - characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess" |
Translationshail-fellow-well-met
hail-fellow-well-metVery friendly, often obnoxiously or disingenuously so. I don't think George is as nice as he seems—he just strikes me as hail-fellow-well-met.hale-fellow-well-metFig. friendly to everyone; falsely friendly to everyone. (Usually said of males.) Yes, he's friendly, sort of hale-fellow-well-met. He's not a very sincere person. Hail-fellow-well-met—you know the type. What a pain he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony!hail-fellow-well-met showing excessive familiarity. 1979 Steven Levenkron The Best Little Girl in the World Harold was accustomed to hail-fellow-well-met salesmen and deferential secretaries and even irate accountants. hail fellow well metOn easy, congenial terms; also, superficial friendliness. This expression, which has a quintessentially Victorian ring, actually dates from the sixteenth century. Presumably it began as a greeting, but by 1550 it was being used figuratively and so appeared in Thomas Becon’s New Catechisme (“They would be ‘hail fellow well met’ with him”).See also: fellow, hail, met, wellhail-fellow-well-met
Synonyms for hail-fellow-well-metadj heartily friendly and congenialSynonymsRelated Words |