- make one's acquaintance
- be introduced to someone
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
make one's acquaintance
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make someone's acquaintance — To meet and become familiar with a person one has not met before • • • Main Entry: ↑acquaint * * * make someone’s acquaintance phrase to meet someone for the first time I’d been looking forward to making her acquaintance for a long time.… … Useful english dictionary
acquaintance — n. 1 (usu. foll. by with) slight knowledge (of a person or thing). 2 the fact or process of being acquainted (our acquaintance lasted a year). 3 a person one knows slightly. Phrases and idioms: make one s acquaintance first meet or introduce… … Useful english dictionary
acquaintance — A person whom one has met often enough of under such circumstances to acquire at least a fair degree of knowledge concerning him. A mere introduction does not make one an acquaintance. Wyllis v. Hann, 47 Iowa 614, 621 … Ballentine's law dictionary
acquaintance — [ə kwānt′ ns] n. 1. knowledge (of something) gotten from personal experience or study of it [an intimate acquaintance with the plays of Jonson] 2. the state or relation of being acquainted (with someone) 3. a person or persons whom one knows, but … English World dictionary
Acquaintance — Ac*quaint ance, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
acquaintance — 01. I have a number of [acquaintances] who are working in the high tech field. 02. We got [acquainted] at school, and eventually became good friends. 03. She s not really a friend; she s just an [acquaintance]. 04. She heard about the job through … Grammatical examples in English
One Life to Live minor characters — The following are characters from the American soap opera One Life to Live who are notable for their actions or relationships, but who do not warrant their own articles and are not part of a notable minor family from the series.Hunter Atwood Zach … Wikipedia
scrape acquaintance — Make acquaintance, make one s self acquainted … New dictionary of synonyms
make a purse for yourself — obsolete to steal or embezzle You filled it without having to earn the contents: The wife of one of his acquaintance had fraudulently made a purse for herself out of her husband s fortune. (J. Boswell, 1791 the wife died without… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
To cut one's wisdom teeth — Cut Cut (k[u^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cut}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cutting}.] [OE. cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael. cutaich to shorten, curtail, dock, cutach … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
