My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met. ❋ Jason Henry McCormick (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Dean's father, "Big Howard" (who, like "Little Howard," was short), was a backslapping hail-fellow-well-met. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was at all times hail-fellow-well-met with the world. ❋ Unknown (2003)
How many hands he shook, how many people he was “hail-fellow-well-met” with, it is impossible to guess! ❋ Unknown (2003)
The swirl of parties and receptions over the past forty-eight hours—the whole hail-fellow-well-met routine—was an intoxicating diversion, but it was only that. ❋ Jim DeFelice (2003)
He was a chameleon even more than the rest of them, with a cheery, hail-fellow-well-met geniality few saw beyond. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)
Nothing could be less like Charles Francis's propriety than Samuel's hail-fellow-well-met disarray. ❋ Richard Brookhiser (2002)
Suslev was filled with outward bonhomie, continuing his cover as a hail-fellow-well-met. ❋ Clavell, James (1981)
The ease with which he himself became hail-fellow-well-met with anybody, and blundered into and out of twenty friendships a half-year, made him sometimes sorry and sometimes angry at Arthur's reserve and loneliness. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
