The phrase "acquaintance across" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to a relationship or familiarity with someone from a distance or in a different location.
Example: "I have an acquaintance across the ocean who shares my interests in art."
Alternatives: "connection from afar" or "familiarity with someone overseas."
And he is by far at his best when he is able to pretend that this isn't the case, as if he were simply chatting up an admiring acquaintance across a dinner table.
On my first trip to New Mexico some years ago during a pause in the dancing at Santo Domingo Pueblo, I waved excitedly to a new acquaintance across the plaza.
If he and the others spotted an acquaintance across the dining room they would send to their table glasses of the rare wines they were drinking, like an '85 Sassicaia, a widely collected wine from the Tuscan coast, or a '61 Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle, a legendary wine from the Rhône Valley.
The narrator's friendship with Leo gives him access to a wide range of acquaintances across the strictly enforced class divisions of a theoretically classless society.
A system which began in the late 1990s with entrepreneurial crooks or gang masters in countries such as Libya and Tunisia supplying their own citizens for seasonal labour in Italy and Spain has since developed into a vast supply chain - some of it managed by organised crime syndicates but much of it consisting of chains of individuals and acquaintances – across north Africa.
I can sprawl over three seats and put my shoes on the seats, I can holler to my acquaintances across the car and I can bring six-packs of beer, especially on Fridays or game days, and I can spill the smelly stuff everywhere.
And that small group has expanded over the last five years, to where I now have an extended community of hundreds of friends and acquaintances across the D.C. area and beyond... all of whom do their part in holding each and every other person accountable.
Their acquaintance ripens across the courtyard, and "Two Lovers" takes its humble place in a line of movies, headed by "Rear Window" and "In a Lonely Place," which bloom in awkward spaces and tight corners.
Hablesreiter remembers bringing a sachertorte a classic Austrian chocolate cake to a gathering, and watching an unwitting Japanese acquaintance slice lengthwise across the cake's diameter instead of cutting wedges from the center.
Talk story about 3 ladies of our acquaintance who motored recently across Maryland and Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore.
By Bobbie Ann Mason The New Yorker, September 15 , 1986P. 30 Talk story about 3 ladies of our acquaintance who motored recently across Maryland and Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore.
