nodding acquaintance with
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnod,acquaintanceandwith
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nod
noun[C ]
uk/nɒd/us/nɑːd/
a movement up and down with ...
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acquaintance
noun
uk/əˈkweɪn.təns/us/əˈkweɪn.təns/
a person that you have met but do not ...
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with
preposition
uk/wɪð/us/wɪð/
used to say that people or things are in a place together or are doing ...
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(Definition ofnod,acquaintanceandwithfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I know that he has anoddingacquaintancewith the subject.
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That amounts to more than anoddingacquaintance.
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I know of considerable areas where farmers have anoddingacquaintancewith silage, but they have never taken the matter up seriously.
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I thank him for saying that 35 years in the building industry may have given me perhaps anoddingacquaintancewith it.
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I can only claim a remotenoddingacquaintancewith that sort of thing.
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Anybody with anoddingacquaintancewith the engineering industry knew that the dispute in that industry was coming months before it did.
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I think that all of us with even anoddingacquaintancewith this industry will accept that there is considerable over-capacity.
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They have had to make anoddingacquaintancewith equities in relation to their superannuation funds.
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Some of us who have anoddingacquaintancewith colonial affairs know that in the realm of medicine, agriculture, teaching and engineering this problem is seen in its sharpest form.
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We must be quite sure today that the classicist has anoddingacquaintancewith the science which will so largely shape the world he is to live in.
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