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They are on speaking terms. They just know each other.
They are not on speaking terms. Though they know each other, they do not even salute each other in the street, or say “How dʹye do?”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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