on a first-name basis

Adverb

Meaning

on a first-name basis (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Having enough familiarity with another person to call them by their first name, as opposed to their surname.
We are not yet on a first-name basis.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

on first-name basis

Examples

Eddie, who was on a first-name basis with all of Texas, was a self-made man, having started an oil supply company with two trucks and a few employees. Source: Internet

Over the last 13 years, she said she's come to know many customers on a first-name basis and is accustomed to running into them at local grocery stores. Source: Internet

Yet the chamber created its biggest fury in Montana, a small-population state where politics operate on a first-name basis. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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