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hail-fellow-well-met
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synonyms: gemütlich, good crack ???
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Definition:friendly, convivial
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At eight in the morning, we go in dishabille to the Pump-room which is crowded like a Welsh fair; and there you see the highest quality, and the lowest trades folks, jostling each other, without ceremony, hail-fellow well-met.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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"Well!" said Mr. Trabb, in a hail-fellow-well-met kind of way. "How are you, and what can I do for you?"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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[he] had come to Boulder from Ogunquit had turned into a stout politician, a backslapper, a hail-fellow-well-met type of guy who nonetheless looked at you with the flat and unsmiling eyes of a gila monster?
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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