nodding acquaintance

Meaning: (idiomatic,usually followed bywith)Acasualorpartialfamiliarity; arelationshipwhich is not close or fully developed; aninexactunderstanding(of something).1857,Wilkie Collins, chapter 5, inThe Queen of Hearts:None of the quarrymen were intimate friends of mine. I had anodding acquaintancewith them.1910,Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 10, inThe Fortune Hunter:There isn't any doubt but that he had anodding acquaintancewith every pretty girl in town.1940April 22, “Education: Better than Shakespeare?”, inTime:[A] Northwestern University psychologist reported, for what it was worth, a surprising finding: an average college-educated modern man has at least anodding acquaintancewith four times as many words as Shakespeare used.2004July 12,Bob Herbert, “Opinion: The Real Enemy Staring Us in the Face”, inNew York Times, retrieved8 May 2013:A government with even anodding acquaintancewith competence and good sense would have launched an all-out war against Al Qaeda, not Iraq, in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11.; (idiomatic)Someone who is aremoteorpassingacquaintance.1903,Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 8, inThe Adventures of Harry Revel:[T]o reach Cattewater I must either fetch a circuit through purlieus where every householder knew me and every urchin was anodding acquaintance, or make a straight dash.1922,John Galsworthy,The Forsyte Saga,part 3, ch. 5:He could not treat this scandalous matter in his own office. . . . Who was there he could go to? Linkman and Laver in Budge Row, perhaps—reliable, not too conspicuous, onlynodding acquaintances.2011May 21, “Race-rigging scandal: We'll clear our names”, inDaily Mirror, UK, retrieved9 May 2013:[S]he knows only two of them asnodding acquaintances, and has never spoken to them privately.

Examples:

EN: I have a nodding acquaintance with geography, geometry... astronomy, philosophy, and botany.
ES: Tengo algunos conocimientos de geografía, geometría... astronomía, filosofía y botánica.
EN: Sort of a nodding acquaintance.
ES: Digamos que sólo de vista.
EN: Look, at least your old man has got a nodding acquaintance with the real world.
ES: - No pasa nada. Al menos, tu viejo tiene los pies en la tierra.
EN: We had a nodding acquaintance.
ES: Teníamos un conocido en común.
HI: एक नन्ही सी जान थी ।
EN: See, if she goes in his shop every time she goes swimming, that could be the nodding acquaintance that the profiler has told us about.
ES: Si entra en su tienda cada vez que va a nadar, podría ser la relación superficial de la que nos habló el diseñador de perfiles.
EN: But in scathing comments, he said Johnson had "only a nodding acquaintance with the truth in a leap year" and the way he treated parliament "with contempt" was "lamentable."
HI: लेकिन तीखी टिप्पणियों में, उन्होंने कहा कि जॉनसन के पास "एक लीप वर्ष में सच्चाई के साथ केवल एक परिचित परिचित था" और जिस तरह से उन्होंने "अवमानना के साथ" संसद के साथ व्यवहार किया वह "शोकपूर्ण" था।
EN: had a nodding acquaintance with me
HI: छोटी सी मुलाकात मेरे साथ
EN: She didn't know any of them as more than a nodding acquaintance.
HI: उसने ननिहाल के बारे में नहीं जान पाया अधिक कुछ
EN: the Bish had only a nodding acquaintance with him, but he greeted us as
HI: साजन हमसे मिले भी लेकिन ऐसे मिले की हाय ,
EN: His relationship with De La Hoya remains one of nodding acquaintance.
HI: लता जी की शख्सियत ऐसी है कि कोई भी उनका मुरीद हो जाए।
HI: और 'लासानी' से जान-पहचान कम ही होगी.
EN: nodding acquaintance grew into a friendship.
HI: मामूली जान-पहचान दोस्ती में बदली।
EN: (I've also seen "Adventures in Babysitting," giving me a nodding acquaintance with Thor.)
HI: (अब मुझे भी चूत का मजा आने लगा और मैंने चाची की चु. . .
EN: having a nodding acquaintance with me
HI: मेरे साथ एक नन्ही परी
EN: nodding acquaintance with the fjords of Norway.
HI: नॉर्वे के झंडे के साथ शील्ड।
EN: If you keep watching that far bank, you can say that you had a nodding acquaintance with a giraffe.
ID: Jika kau terus memperhatikan tepi itu, kau bisa mengangguk setuju bahwa kau punya kenalan jerapah.

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