hail-fellow

• “The very lack now of hail-fellow chumminess is, frankly, very odd.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Wolff: BP: Blame the Brits

• “There was none of the usual hail-fellow cordiality that I had encountered in my previous meetings with politicians.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dealings

• “I met their gazes and tried to shoot a casual hail-fellow kind of look.”

  Simon & Schuster: Long Way Home

• “He had a hail-fellow manner that some passengers adopt in the company of pilots.”

  William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash

• “Still, beneath a hail-fellow manner, Bush has a defensive edge, a don't-tread-on-me prickliness.”

  Newsweek: Bush in the Bubble

• “A snippet of the article:When things go bad for a client--and we're talking off the cliff--the respectable barrister known for his or her brilliant transactional mind, hail-fellow connections and Ivy League charm may have to bring in a different type of attorney.”

  02/10/2007

• “Rogers delighted Clemens by treating him with bluff hail-fellow humor, the sort that Howells always reached for but never quite managed to pull off.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “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.”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “There is something about the kind of hail-fellow well met that I get a little uneasy about.”

  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: President Clinton Draws Laughs at White House Correspondents' Dinner - May 1, 2000

• “Emergencies made new rules, the local councillor said, bustling towards my father, presenting a surface of urgent concern, all camaraderie for him and with hail-fellow greetings individually for the firemen.”

  Penalty

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