| 词组 | hail-fellow-well-met |
| 释义 | Idiom hail-fellow-well-met Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE friendly to everyone; falsely friendly to everyone. (Usually said of males.)Yes, he's friendly, sort of hail-fellow-well-met.He's not a very sincere person. Hail-fellow-well-met— you know the type.What a pain he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony! Idiom hail-fellow-well-met old-fashioned a man who is hail-fellow-well-met is very friendly and pleasant, often in a way that you do not trust.He was a hail-fellow-well-met sort of a man who'd greet you with a big slap on the back. hail-fellow-well-metVery friendly, often obnoxiously or disingenuously so. I don't think George is as nice as he seems—he just strikes me as hail-fellow-well-met. hale-fellow-well-metFig. friendly to everyone; falsely friendly to everyone. (Usually said of males.) Yes, he's friendly, sort of hale-fellow-well-met. He's not a very sincere person. Hail-fellow-well-met—you know the type. What a pain he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony! hail-fellow-well-metshowing excessive familiarity. 1979 Steven Levenkron The Best Little Girl in the World Harold was accustomed to hail-fellow-well-met salesmen and deferential secretaries and even irate accountants. hail fellow well metOn easy, congenial terms; also, superficial friendliness. This expression, which has a quintessentially Victorian ring, actually dates from the sixteenth century. Presumably it began as a greeting, but by 1550 it was being used figuratively and so appeared in Thomas Becon’s New Catechisme (“They would be ‘hail fellow well met’ with him”). |
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