have a nodding acquaintance with sb/sth
to know someone slightly or have a slight knowledge of a subject:
She has only a nodding acquaintance with the issues involved.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Knowledge and awareness
- abroad
- acquaintance
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness
- be ahead of the game idiom
- consciousness
- familiarity
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- given
- grounding
- have a passing/slight/nodding acquaintance with sth idiom
- literacy
- loop
- perception
- perceptual
- reflexivity
- schoolboy
- secret
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