hail fellow well met
See also: hail-fellow-well-met
English
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Noun
hail fellow well met (plural hail fellows well met)
- A sociable, friendly, usually male person.
- 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn,
- All his life he had been a jolly hail fellow well met: he had put on a rather becoming paunch,... his manners were easy and indolent,....
- 1990, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Penguin, →ISBN, page 60,
- I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions.
- 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn,
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