hob-a-nob

We are taught to rail against a man the whole session through, and then hob-a-nob with him at the concluding entertainment.

Lay Morals 2005

An 'the grand folks in Lun'on ha' give him a gowd sword, an 'he bin hob-a-nob wi' King Jarge hisself. An 'us folks o' Market Drayton take it proud, we do, as he be come to see us afore he goes back to his duty.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

He led me by a shady alley into his orchard, and thence to a stable, where we left Rosinante at hob-a-nob with his mare over a friendly bottle of hay.

Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

Late evening mantled the garden; and in sheer ennui again he sat down to the table, and turned for a last not unfriendly hob-a-nob with his poor old friend Sabathier.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a-nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

I had never been in such intimate relations with the high altitudes before; the snow-peaks had always been remote and unapproachable grandeurs, hitherto, but now we were hob-a-nob, -- if one may use such a seemingly irreverent expression about creations so august as these.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

We are taught to rail against a man the whole session through, and then hob-a-nob with him at the concluding entertainment.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I had never been in such intimate relations with the high altitudes before; the snow-peaks had always been remote and unapproachable grandeurs, hitherto, but now we were hob-a-nob -- if one may use such a seemingly irreverent expression about creations so august as these.

A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872

Can none be in your company, Babbalanja, but you must perforce make them hob-a-nob with that old prater?

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

We must have a hob-a-nob glass together for old acquaintance sake.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843