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PonyFan Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

A pleasure makin' your acquaintance

Is "a pleasure makin' your acquaintance" a kind of idiom(I still don't know whether calling it "idiom" is proper though...)? Thanks in advance!
  

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No, it really isn't an idiom. It is a casual form of "It has been a pleasure to make your acquaintance / making your acquaintance" both meaning "to meet you". Your example probably is intended to imply a regional usage (I immediately think of dialogue in movies of the Old West in the States).

— Philip

  • No, it really isn't an idiom.
  • It is a casual form of "It has been a pleasure to make your acquaintance / making your acquaintance" both meaning "to meet you".
  • Your example probably is intended to imply a regional usage (I immediately think of dialogue in movies of the Old West in the States).
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No, it really isn't an idiom. It is a casual form of "It has been a pleasure to make your acquaintance / making your acquaintance" both meaning "to meet you". Your example probably is intended to imply a regional usage (I immediately think of dialogue in movies of the Old West in the States).
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Thank you very much, Mr. Philip! I have one more question. Which elements make you consider it to be "regional"? One element I noticed is the drop of g in making.
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Yes, the missing g is the main individual element. Other than that, it's just the entire phrase...
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