Hail-fellow-well-met

A banker need not be popular; indeed a good banker in a healthy capitalist society should probably be much disliked. People do not wish to trust their money to a hail-fellow-well-met but to a misanthrope who can say no.

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....

N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60, "You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."

My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.