nodding acquaintance

nodding acquaintance {n.}

Less than casual acquaintance.

I have never spoken to the chancellor; we have only a nodding acquaintance.

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have a nodding acquaintance with

[have a nodding acquaintance with] See: [NODDING ACQUAINTANCE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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