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hail-fellow-well-met

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hail-fellow-well-met

  (old-fashioned)

a man who is hail-fellow-well-met is very friendly and pleasant, often in a way that you do not trust He was a hail-fellow-well-met sort of a man who'd greet you with a big slap on the back.