on nodding terms

prepositional phrase

Having a relationship which is not close or fully developed (with someone).

“to be on nodding terms with one's neighbours”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Having a relationship which is not close or fully developed (with someone).

    to be on nodding terms with one's neighbours

    1 more example

    [P]erhaps there was a squirrel or two whom he could befriend, or at least one day be on nodding terms with.

    2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Ten-Tonne Truck”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 149
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