speaking acquaintance

Although they had no more than a speaking acquaintance with each other, these men possessed much in common.

I could see that you and plows weren't on speaking acquaintance.

However, she was on her guard and his reports indicate that beyond a speaking acquaintance he had so far got nowhere.

I have had a speaking acquaintance with nerves, myself.

They had never been in the same squadron together but had a speaking acquaintance.

What Prof told them bore a speaking acquaintance with truth and they were not where they could spot discrepancies.

We often encountered, in these expeditions, a company of English Tourists, with whom I had an ardent, but ungratified longing, to establish a speaking acquaintance.

We do eat meat, but we prefer it to be cookedand we would rather not have had a speaking acquaintance with it before it became our dinner.

Mr. Peattie writes: "Wherever you live, wherever you tramp or travel, the trees of our country are wondrously companionable, if you have a speaking acquaintance with them.