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hail-fellow-well-met

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hail-fel·low (hlfl) also hail-fel·low-well-met (-wlmt)
adj.
Heartily friendly and congenial.
[From the obsolete greeting hail, fellow!.]
hail-fellow 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
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Adj.1.hail-fellow-well-met - heartily friendly and congenial
comradely, hail-fellow
friendly - characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"
Translations
hail-fellow-well-met [ˈheɪlˌfeləʊˈwelˈmet] ADJ → (demasiado)efusivo, campechano
hail-fellow-well-met
adj → plumpvertraulich; he tries to be hail-fellow-well-met with everyone → er versucht, sich bei allen anzubiedern
hail-fellow-well-met [ˈheɪlˌfɛləʊwɛlˈmɛt] adj (pej) → che si prende troppa confidenza
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And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus -- that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Down there they talk of the heavenly King - and that is right - but then they go right on speaking as if this was a republic and everybody was on a dead level with everybody else, and privileged to fling his arms around anybody he comes across, and be hail-fellow-well-met with all the elect, from the highest down.
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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