acquaintance : Idioms & Phrases


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.
Webster 1913