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Meaning of say hello to my little friend | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.

Examples

“This is the same Lindsey Graham who thinks he needs his AR-15 in case "there was a law-and-order breakdown in my community." You say tomato, I say "Say hello to my little friend."”

“Say hello to my little friend. Hideous, isn’t he? […] He's a replica of a tiny 20 cm. black-lacquered bronze statue in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. […] Listed under "grotesque animal," and probably 17th century by the engraver Arent van Bolten, he "stands on high legs with an open beak. On the place of the wings sits the spiralling part of a cochlea (snail shell); its genitals are quite prominent."”

“Halstead then turned the camera on himself, holding the meat cleaver as he said: "Say hello to my little friend."”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

say it, don't spray it say la vee say less say no more say none say nothing