hail-fellow-well-met

Very friendly, often obnoxiously or disingenuously so. I don't think George is as nice as he seems—he just strikes me as hail-fellow-well-met. A: "I don't trust anyone who's hail-fellow-well-met like that." B: "Right? No one is just naturally that friendly." No, Kate is just genuinely a really nice, caring person—not hail-fellow-well-met.

hale and hearty

Healthy. It's true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she's hale and hearty now. A: "How's our little guy?" B: "The pediatrician was very pleased with his growth. She says he's hale and hearty!" I did break my foot over the summer, but I'm hale and hearty now.

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hale and hearty

Cliché healthy. The young infant was hale and hearty. The calf—hale and hearty—ran around the barnyard.

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hale-fellow-well-met

Fig. friendly to everyone; falsely friendly to everyone. (Usually said of males.) Yes, he's friendly, sort of hale-fellow-well-met. He's not a very sincere person. Hail-fellow-well-met—you know the type. What a pain he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony!

hale and hearty

In robust good health, as in After her long bout with pneumonia, I was glad to see her hale and hearty. This redundant expression, since both hale and hearty here mean "healthy," probably survives owing to its pleasing alliteration. [Mid-1800s]

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hail-fellow-well-met

showing excessive familiarity.

1979 Steven Levenkron The Best Little Girl in the World Harold was accustomed to hail-fellow-well-met salesmen and deferential secretaries and even irate accountants.

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hale and ˈhearty

(especially of old people) strong and healthy: She was still hale and hearty in her nineties.

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hale and hearty

Healthy and vigorous. This term, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, is redundant, since hale and hearty both mean “healthy.” It survived, no doubt, because of its pleasing alliteration. Thomas Hardy used it in The Dynasts (1903): “We be the King’s men, hale and hearty.”

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hala, supports this derivation of AN haler. For an overview of Norse-inspired nautical vocabulary, see Sayers 2005.

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Peter Haler, chief executive of the Leasehold Enfranchisement Advisory Service (tel: 0171 493 3116) said: "If the residents are having problems we will happily visit them and offer what advice we can."

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I wish Frances Haler could experience our service, we'd welcome her.

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The bowlines are being tightened at the stem of the ship, not-pace G-"pulled and hauled in." Note Anglo-Norman haler (39) 'haul' < ON hala.

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