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To scrape acquaintance

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to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction.

- Farquhar.

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for this was not the first time my next-door neighbor had tried to scrape acquaintance with me.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

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