hail fellow well met Idiom, Proverb

about to do something

on the point of doing something She was about to leave when the phone rang.

bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

bend over backwards to do something

try very hard If I can, I will bend over backwards to help you get a promotion in the company.

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

bring something on

cause to develop rapidly I don

brush up on something

review something one has already learned I

can't make heads or tails of something

" can't understand something at all;"

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

hail-fellow-well-met

Very friendly, generally obnoxiously or disingenuously so. I don't anticipate George is as nice as he seems—he aloof strikes me as hail-fellow-well-met.

hale-fellow-well-met

Fig. affable to everyone; falsely affable to everyone. (Usually said of males.) Yes, he's friendly, array of hale-fellow-well-met. He's not a actual aboveboard person. Hail-fellow-well-met—you apperceive the type. What a affliction he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony!

hail-fellow-well-met

assuming boundless familiarity. 1979 Steven Levenkron The Best Little Girl in the World Harold was acclimatized to hail-fellow-well-met salesmen and civil secretaries and alike angered accountants.

hail adolescent able-bodied met

On easy, adapted terms; also, apparent friendliness. This expression, which has a quintessentially Victorian ring, absolutely dates from the sixteenth century. Presumably it began as a greeting, but by 1550 it was actuality acclimated figuratively and so appeared in Thomas Becon’s New Catechisme (“They would be ‘hail adolescent able-bodied met’ with him”).Learn more: fellow, hail, met, well

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