hail-fellow-well-met

My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

Of course those are skills Bush would have as a politician, but Cousin X was impressed by his hail-fellow-well-met good nature that seemed quite sincere, and Bush's genuine good sense.

"I wasn’t exactly sure what to say to you, except to start with, God, I love our country and I love what we stand for." Ann Althouse 2008

A lean six feet tall, Broadbent had a fringy sweep of whitening hair, and his smile, distinctly hail-fellow-well-met, was tempered by the cocked eyebrow of a worldly man.

'The Billionaire's Vinegar' 2008

Smilin 'Al was the hail-fellow-well-met guy, the man who would later smuggle a 6-iron onto Apollo 14 in 1971 and become the first man to play golf in space.

'Al Just Left Us All Behind' 2008

Dean's father, "Big Howard" (who, like "Little Howard," was short), was a backslapping hail-fellow-well-met.

THE WASP'S NEST 2007

Gilbert was a man who could be angry enough at baseness or neglect, but who was too kindly to punish it; he was one who could form the wisest and best-digested plans, but who could not stoop to that hail-fellow-well-met drudgery among his subordinates which has been the talisman of great captains.

Westward Ho! 2007

Hot diggity; we're always thrilled to see the old Growler given some airtime--it's a cool site, too, and we thank them for the hail-fellow-well-met comments they made about the piece--written by our own thegrowlingwolf, a true Know-it-All in the highly irreverent sense.

In the Face of the Coming Cold The Daily Growler 2006

And it seems to me highly unlikely that any chaplain, even one that prided himself on his hail-fellow-well-met attitude with students would say this.

Hullabaloo 2006

Still, I think that it's fair to associate Kennedy with traditional Republicanism -- maybe because that's how he grew up (with a father who was a hail-fellow-well-met lobbyist).

Balkinization 2004

Still, I think that it's fair to associate Kennedy with traditional Republicanism -- maybe because that's how he grew up with a father who was a hail-fellow-well-met lobbyist.

Balkinization 2004