passing acquaintance

Anybody who has even a passing acquaintance with Johnson would know that for him there was no other choice to make.

How many of us can count a tax collector as a personal friend, or even a passing acquaintance?

But I doubt you have more than a passing acquaintance with it."

"I have a passing acquaintance with a few," she replied.

So Skow and her father had more than a passing acquaintance.

He may or may not have more than a passing acquaintance with her.

Faile sometimes had only a passing acquaintance with the truth.

His recognition of her could only point to one thing: He had more than a passing acquaintance with cops.

On the other hand, she and tact were no more than passing acquaintances.

Before reaching the general theory, you see, we like to have in hand a passing acquaintance with at least some of the facts.

Then as now, a man behind a counter could be a neighborhood figure, familiar face and passing acquaintance.

By then I had more than a passing acquaintance with the first two vices, but not the last.

Certainly the calm look on her face suggests more than a passing acquaintance with the painter.

The older crew members have a passing acquaintance with such devices at work, but that's it.

Therefore, I advise you to do no more than make a passing acquaintance with your relatives.

"His name is Quinn, and he's more of a passing acquaintance, really."

Never accept lifts from strangers or passing acquaintances at any time.

After a while a man came in who was evidently a passing acquaintance of the family and stopped at their table to chat.

He has more than a passing acquaintance with the kind and patient man who works at a small foreign car showroom nearby.

That, in turn, suggested that he had more than a passing acquaintance with such books.

You knew very well that I had more than a passing acquaintance with both your daughter and son-in-law."

"I wonder if you've got so much as a passing acquaintance with the truth, Siobhán."

He never found work, made no male friends and had only a passing acquaintance with people in a local pub, including the 20-year-old barmaid.

Who cares whether a passing acquaintance might conclude that the old boy's gone insane?

Even the Bible, which has more than a passing acquaintance with infinity, seems to stumble over them.