friend

friend

To add someone to one's network on a social media site. I just friended that cute girl from my English class.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See:
  • (even) the best of friends must part
  • a fair-weather friend
  • a false friend and a shadow stay only while the sun shines
  • a false friend is worse than an open enemy
  • a friend at court
  • a friend in need
  • a friend in need is a friend indeed
  • a friend of Dorothy
  • a friend's eye is a good mirror
  • Any friend of
  • any friend of (someone's) (is a friend of mine)
  • asking for a friend
  • be (just) good friends
  • be friends with
  • be friends with (someone)
  • be good friends
  • become friends with (someone)
  • bosom buddy/friend
  • bosom chums
  • bosom friend
  • bosom friends
  • call (oneself) a (something)
  • call yourself a teacher, friend, etc.?
  • childhood friend
  • comfortable as an old shoe, as
  • defriend
  • fair-weather friend
  • false friend
  • false friends are worse than open enemies
  • fast friends
  • feathered friends
  • flexible friend
  • friend
  • friend at court
  • friend in court
  • friend in need
  • friend in need is a friend indeed
  • friend in need is a friend indeed, a
  • friend of Bill W.
  • friend or foe
  • friend with benefits
  • friend zone
  • friend(s) in court
  • friends in high places
  • friends with
  • friends with (someone)
  • Friendsgiving
  • good accounting makes good friends
  • have friends in high places
  • he that hath a full purse never wanted a friend
  • high places, friends in
  • I was up all night with a sick friend
  • if you want a friend, be a friend
  • keep your friends close and your enemies closer
  • Lend your money and lose your friend
  • Lend your money and lose your friend.
  • make a friend
  • make friends
  • make friends (with one)
  • make friends with
  • man's best friend
  • my enemy's enemy is my friend
  • no new friends
  • our feathered friends
  • short reckonings make long friends
  • the best of friends must part
  • the enemy of my enemy is my friend
  • the enemy of your enemy is your friend
  • unfriend
  • What's (something) between friends?
  • what's... between friends?
  • who needs enemies with friends like (someone)
  • Who’s your friend?
  • Who's your friend?
  • with friends like (someone), who needs enemies
  • with friends like that, who needs enemies
  • With friends like that, who needs enemies?
  • With friends like these, who needs enemies?
References in classic literature
Thou canst not adorn thyself fine enough for thy friend; for thou shalt be unto him an arrow and a longing for the Superman.
Sawest thou ever thy friend asleep--to know how he looketh?
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods.
And we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and passionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned; who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants; whom both themselves have called friends, and allowed other likewise to call them in the same manner; using the word which is received between private men.
The Essays
And who is best able to do good to his friends and evil to his enemies in time of sickness?
Republic
"All that, my dear friend, is strikingly true," replied Athos.
Ten Years Later
"Thou dost reckon me thy friend, and thou wouldst rob me of honour, a thing wholly inconsistent with friendship; and not only dost thou aim at this, but thou wouldst have me rob thee of it also.
Don Quixote
"A baron, don't you mean?" cried D'Artagnan, finishing his friend's sentence.
Twenty Years After
Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards, but the austerest worth; let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.
Essays First Series
"I hear a voice," says Chadband; "is it a still small voice, my friends? I fear not, though I fain would hope so--"
Bleak House
Winkle, 'or if the doctor falls, you, my dear friend, will be tried as an accessory before the fact.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
'I say,' resumed his friend, 'suppose he lives, and I persuaded, or if the word sounds more feasible, forced Nell to a secret marriage with you.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The friend arose and went over to them, mak- ing pacific motions with his arms.
Red Badge of Courage
TO THE FRIEND WHO, HOWEVER OFTEN I MAY PUT HIM OUT, NEVER (NOW) UPSETS ME IN REVENGE--
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"What has he done for me, my friend! done for me!" cried Porthos, enthusiastically.
The Man in the Iron Mask