hobnob with (someone)
hobnob with (someone)
To interact with someone, typically someone who has more power, fame, or success than oneself. I can't hobnob with those ladies—they're executives at the biggest company in town!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
hobnob with someone or something
to associate with someone or a group, especially with those more wealthy, famous, etc. I'm not used to hobnobbing with such luminaries. Walter is spending a lot of time hobnobbing with the very rich.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- (one's) heart goes out to (someone)
- accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
- accompany on a journey
- be one in the eye for
- a stranger to (someone or something)
- be out of (one's) league
- be out of somebody's league
- be in bad with (someone)
- (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
- bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)