He basically has a master's degree in hail fellow well met.
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"Hoyer is the old-school pol; everything about him is hail-fellow-well-met," said Amy Walter, national editor for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
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In "The Post", Tom Hanks does his hail-fellow-well-met shtick (with an outer layer of crustiness, because he's Ben Bradlee, a newspaper editor), but with more hailing and more meetings of fellows.
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In their place came the former defender Southgate, a seemingly hail-fellow-well-met with a middling résumé who got the job when his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, was fired amid a corruption scandal after a single game.
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While it's not perfect – my battery went dead during the session – nothing really is and I suspect the camaraderie and hearty hail-fellow-well-met nature of video sex will make a few converts over the next few years.
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"Boris Johnson is kind of 'hail fellow well met,' blustering Eton schoolboy, and Theresa May was an uptight, hard-working, completely uncharismatic head girl," said Angela Phillips, a professor of journalism at Goldsmiths University of London, describing how the two leaders were portrayed in the right-wing press.
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"Hail fellow well met" is a somewhat archaic English idiom used when referring to a person whose behavior is hearty, friendly, and congenial, in the affirmative tensation of the ideal.
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Bartle was a hail-fellow-well- met, who "never knew a stranger" and demonstrated an impressive recall of names.Taylor, 134. On Christmas, he would regularly spend the day visiting orphanages, the Boy's Home, the city jail, and other places that might be overlooked on such a holiday.Taylor, 89.
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He played Valentin, in Faust, 'in an unfinished, hail-fellow-well-met way.' Later on, as Vanderdecken, etc., 'his dramatic grip was much surer; and at the present moment [1892], on the verge of his sixtieth year, he is a more thorough artist than ever.'Shaw 1932, II, 196.
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Derek Elley of Variety praised Broadbent and Dalton as "especially good as Angel's hail-fellow-well-met superior and oily No. 1 suspect". As an homage to the genre, the film was well received by screenwriter Shane Black. Despite being mostly praised, not all reviews were positive. The Daily Mirror gave Hot Fuzz only 2/5, stating that "many of the jokes miss their target" as the film becomes more action-based.
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A restaurant scene where a customer initially asks "FUNEX" ("Have you any eggs") appears in a 1949 book Hail fellow well met by Seymour Hicks and was performed in The Two Ronnies under the title Swedish made simple. The book How to Double the Meaning of Life devotes three pages to gramograms, to which the author, Anil, gives the name letteral words. neither spelling of the word appears in the online Oxford English Dictionary. Some are homophones because some can be used for multiple words.
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Kuiper uses the fact that this idiom is a phrase that is a part of the English lexicon (technically, a "phrasal lexical item"), and that there are different ways that the expression can be presented—for instance, as the common "hail-fellow-well-met," which appears as a modifier before the noun it modifies,The appearance of the idiom before the noun it modifies classifies its use in this case as a "prenominal modifier." See Kuiper (2007), op. cit., [Needed here is a further citation to define the term.], and Maugham (1915), op. cit.
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Francis Miles Finch was born on June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, New York. He was educated at Yale University, where, according to a contemporary, he was a "thoughtful scholar in the class-room, a prizeman in the essay competitions, an influential editor of the Yale Lit an impressive speaker in the Linonian Society, hail-fellow-well-met on the campus, sedate, impulsive, big-hearted, wise, witty, everywhere he was the ideal collegian." Because of his achievements, he became a member of Skull and Bones. Having been graduated in 1849, he returned to Ithaca, became a lawyer, and speedily distinguished himself in his profession.
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George UnderhillGeorge Frederick Underhill, A Century of English Fox-Hunting, R.A. Everett, 1900 recorded (albeit inaccurately in relation to Christian's alleged illiteracy) that: > It was Dick Christian’s profession to earn his living out of the hunting > field. He rode in many steeple chases but was never a cross-country jockey > as we understand the phrase. He bought and sold many horses, but was never a > professional dealer. He was paid for giving opinions upon the merits or > demerits of many horses, but he was never a veterinary surgeon. He was “hail > fellow well met” with everybody from George IV to an earthstopper, and could > hardly write his own name. Among the famous races in which Dick Christian took part was the 1826 steeplechase between Horatio Ross’s horse Clinker and George Osbaldeston’s Clasher.
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Theatre historian and author W. J. MacQueen-Pope, who worked with Coyne on The Merry Widow, described him as "a curious-looking fellow, with a round face and a pair of rather sad eyes, loose-limbed and with a habit of kicking out on each side with his feet as he walked. Here was a man who could twist a woman round his finger without effort, but his simple, wistful appeal, and who also would be hail-fellow- well-met with the men; there was the smile and the lurking mischief in the eye, which peep forth from time to time, to prove it. "On the stage Joseph Coyne was unique. Few, very few, men had the mixture of charm, ability and talent which he possessed, and few, very few, ever stormed the hearts of the British Public as did this young American.
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