salutation

Greetings and salutations

An emphatic and somewhat formal greeting. Greetings and salutations! Thank you all so much for coming!
See also: and, Greeting, salutation
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Greetings and felicitations!

 and Greetings and Salutations!
Hello and good wishes. (A bit stilted.) "Greetings and felicitations! Welcome to our talent show!" said the master of ceremonies. Bill: Greetings and salutations, Bob! Bob: Come off it, Bill. Can't you just say "Hi" or something?
See also: and, Greeting
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • Greetings and salutations
  • felicitation
  • Greetings and felicitations
  • Greetings and felicitations!
  • How do you like this weather?
  • I'm pleased to meet you
  • pleased to meet you
  • (I'm) (very) pleased to meet you
  • Put it there
  • put it there!
References in periodicals archive
Normandy: I Scott (Stag), F Kirk (Devorgilla), D Urquhart (Stag), PWatson (Glenpark B), C Slater (Globe), I Maxwell (Salutation B), R Hutchison (Normandy A), A Mawhinney (Dickies B), N Coulson (Devorgilla).
Salutation: A Cameron, E Anderson, M Patterson, M Stewart, O Armstrong, M Moffat, A Johnstone,T Rae, J McInally, S J Smith, E Davidson.
Normandy: D Newlands (Dickies B); D Vickery (Lochar); A Blythe (Salutation A); D Little (Club B); C Lennox Snr (Devorgilla); M Smith (Glenpark A); I Mitchell (Globe).
Salutation: J McKinnon (Barrel), D McCormack (Abbey Inn), B McKinnon (Barrel), Z Peden (Dickies), J Keenan (Dickies), KTelfer (Dickies), C Currie (Douglas Arms), P Carmichael (Fleshers), J Dalziel (Glenpark), R McGaughie (Glenpark), T Walls (Glenpark), J McMenamin (Glenpark), W Harkness (Globe M/S),T Thomson (Greens), J Murray (Hole I'Wa'), H Baty (Lochside Club), P Robertson (Lochside Club), B Martin (Max BC), J Mollins (Riverside), A Ewart (Salutation), G Gibson (Salutation), D Niven (Salutation), G Edwards (Tam O'Shanter), A Bryden (Troqueer).
The book celebrates the powerful ancient Indian practice of yoga and its formidable therapeutic technique surya namaskar (sun salutations).
Slipstream A League P WDLPts GLENPARKX 22162 4 34 Barrel C 22135 4 31 SpreadEagleA 22130 9 26 DICKIESBARA 22113 8 25 Slipstream 22 9 6 7 24 WAVERLEYA 228 7 7 23 NewBazaar 22102 1022 AbbeyInn 227 6 9 20 DevorgillaB 227 5 1019 Salutation 22 6 4 12 16 WAVERLEYR 225 4 1314 Barrel A 22 3 4 15 10 Normandy B League P WDLPts GreensBarB 22134 5 30 GLENPARKA 22115 6 27 TamO'Shanter 229 9 4 27 LOCHSIDECLUBA 22106 6 26 TroqueerArms?
figure By ALLAUDIN QURESHI Kenbharti's eighth episode of SALAAM (salutations mother) to celebrate India's 70th Republic Day last Saturday evening at the Oshwal Junior Academy scored not only to ignite patriotic feelings but also excelled in spreading poetical romance and joy.
Kavitha Ramakrishna, an Indian expatriate, has performed 432 'suryanamaskars' (sun salutations) at a stretch to become the first person in Oman to have achieved the feat.
Known as the urdhva mukha svanasana, this pose belongs to the traditional sun salutation sequence.
DSP Training Naveeda Hameed received the salutation. The course has been completed under the directions and supervision of Additional IGP Punjab Highway Patrol Abubakar Khuda Bakhsh.
About 550 people got on to the mat to perform 108 sun salutations. The highlight of the event was two cancer survivors and an octogenarian performed 108 times sun salutation along with other participants of all ages.
However, letter writing is not only a common pedagogical task in language education but also an act of social practice: when students write a letter, they engage in interaction with a real or imagined audience, and when they use a conventional politeness formula to acknowledge the audience of that letter, such as the salutation (the greeting which precedes the body of the letter) or a valediction (the complimentary closing or signoff which follows it), the formula employed can reflect the extent to which they have assimilated the linguistic, discursive and social norms of the target language as well as how much distance they perceive to exist between themselves and their addressees.
Tony, whose parents used to keep The Salutation pub, started work in the Angel Hotel after leaving school in 1956.
Bailey, of Falstaff Road, and Oliver, of Watch House Close, were found guilty of conspiracy to burgle three commercial premises, conspiracy to rob the two Post Offices, conspiracy to rob relating to the planning of cash in transit robberies, and the robbery at the Salutation Inn.
Bailey and Oliver were arrested within hours of the frightening raid at the Salutation Inn on Tynemouth Front Street, during the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday last year.