acquaintance : Idioms & Phrases
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A speaking acquaintance
- a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects.
Webster 1913
To be of acquaintance
- to be intimate.
Webster 1913
To scrape acquaintance
- to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction.
Webster 1913
To take acquaintance of or with
- to make the acquaintance of. Obs.