on nodding terms
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Having a relationship which is not close or fully developed (with someone).
- to be on nodding terms with one's neighbours
- [P]erhaps there was a squirrel or two whom he could befriend, or at least one day be on nodding terms with.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Ten-Tonne Truck”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 149:
- Related terms
- on speaking terms, on talking terms, nodding acquaintance