a nodding acquaintance

I did not know your parents beyond a nodding acquaintance.

Should I not, then, have more than a nodding acquaintance with it?

But, as often happened, the official and the real had only a nodding acquaintance with each other.

With only a nodding acquaintance remaining between them, she was left pretty much on her own.

And still I maintained no more than a nodding acquaintance with him.

Don't any of you have even a nodding acquaintance with psychology?

But most of us would like more than just a nodding acquaintance with neighbors.

The two had a nodding acquaintance that developed into a date four years later.

Yet even a nodding acquaintance with British history tells us the opposite.

My secondary support group is a woman I hardly know, a nodding acquaintance until recently.

You will now have at least a nodding acquaintance with twelve reference books.

And over time, they might form a nodding acquaintance.

They had never had more than a nodding acquaintance, after all.

His crush eventually wore off, and they had only a nodding acquaintance through high school.

I have only a nodding acquaintance with Robert, a patient who sees a colleague down the hall.

More than a nodding acquaintance it appears," she commented. "

Some have claimed they only had a nodding acquaintance.

Eddie, who had a nodding acquaintance with ten more years of history than this fellow, nodded.

Back in the world, I had barely had a nodding acquaintance with the girl.

I do have a nodding acquaintance with biology, remember.

He knew some of Jeanne's neighbours by sight, having built up a nodding acquaintance over the years.

Forrest wasn't sharp on animal languages, but he had a nodding acquaintance.

One student, a sixth-grade girl new to the school, said Olivia had been only a nodding acquaintance.

Let's just say that Wyatt and I have a nodding acquaintance.

We had no more than a nodding acquaintance, and had never discussed serious matters or politics.