scrape up an acquaintance , also: scrape acquaintance
scrape acquaintance with somebody

They will endeavour to scrape acquaintance with you and with Marie.

I'd like you to put up there for a few days, and try to scrape acquaintance with her.

It had not been hard to scrape acquaintance with them.

He would go into the pub, he would scrape acquaintance with that old man and question him.

Some were heard to sing, and all began to scrape acquaintance with small jests and ready laughter.

The children found each other out like dogs, and ran about the decks scraping acquaintance after their fashion also.

Nay, even in a natural state, as I found next morning when we scraped acquaintance, he was a heavy, uncommunicative man.

But she also knew that Flora had no business goinganywhere with the two philanderers who were trying to scrape acquaintance.

It was Norris's diversion, having none other, to scrape acquaintance, where, how, and with whom he could.