Have a nodding acquaintance with someone.




Have a nodding acquaintance with someone. :


Have a nodding acquaintance with someone or something

Know someone slightly.

Know a little about something.

1989 Donnie Radcliffe Simply Barbara Bush : Their families had lived less than ten miles apart as they were growing up and their fathers almost certainly had a nodding acquaintance on the golf course.



Scrape acquaintance with

Contrive to get to know (dated)

1992 Atlantic : I thought how lucky the Crimms were to have scraped acquaintance with me, for I seldom reveal my identity to ordinary people on my jaunts around the world.


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