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Discover LudwigThe phrase "get on first-name terms" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when referring to the process of becoming familiar enough with someone to address them by their first name. Example: "After working together for a few months, we finally got on first-name terms, which made our collaboration much more comfortable."
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So, feel free to give the creatures a cuddle: just don't get on first-name terms.
Instead I will strive to get on first-name terms with my tailor".
Instead, belatedly, and in a very new-leaf way, I choose otherwise: I will strive to get on first-name terms with my tailor and I will outgrow that ubiquitous slouching phenomenon, the male kidult.
Instead I will strive to get on first-name terms with my tailor". And so began a quest for elegance that took in Mad Men, a wet shave and drinking lessons from a man who asked things such as: "Have you ever kissed a tree?" Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
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I got on first-name terms with the noise pollution lady at the council who helped me turn the volume down on a delusionary "singing" teacher and a karaoke-prone pub.
The director of the Institute of Economic Affairs IEAA) was secretly recorded telling an undercover reporter that funders could get to know ministers on first-name terms and that his organisation was in "the Brexit influencing game".
And most are on first-name terms with one another.
He might have done: after all, they were on first-name terms.
We are instantly on first-name terms, and no one dresses for dinner.
And, thanks to a gruelling regime of daily flyering, which has put us on first-name terms with blokes selling the Scotsman and the Big Issue, we've even got an audience.
The women are on first-name terms.
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