have a nodding acquaintance with someone/something

Related to word: nod

Idiom

Definition

  1. To have a slight or superficial relationship with a person, or to have a basic understanding of a subject.

    對某人僅有淺層的認識,或對某事僅略知一二。

    • I have only a nodding acquaintance with that professor; I don't know him well.

      我和那位教授僅有點頭之交;我並不了解他。

    • She has only a nodding acquaintance with this programming language and cannot complete the project independently.

      她對這種程式語言僅略知一二,無法獨立完成這個專案。

    • Although I took economics in college, I now only have a nodding acquaintance with the subject.

      雖然我大學時修過經濟學,但我現在對這門學科僅略知一二。