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Kanonathena Posted 20 years ago
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well met

When should you say "well met" or do you use it at all in common speech? What does "well met" come from?

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Hi, When should you say "well met" or do you use it at all in common speech? It sounds very old-fashioned. I recommend that you forget about this in everyday speech.

— Clive

  • Hi, When should you say "well met" or do you use it at all in common speech?
  • It sounds very old-fashioned.
  • I recommend that you forget about this in everyday speech.
  • What does "well met" come from?
  • It just means that the event of our meeting is good.
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Hi,

When should you say "well met" or do you use it at all in common speech? It sounds very old-fashioned. I recommend that you forget about this in everyday speech.

What does "well met" come from? It just means that the event of our meeting is good.

Best wishes, Clive
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Oh yes, it sounds very old-fashioned!

The only instance I have ever heard/read it is in a song by Joan Baez (an old ballad):

Well met, well met, my own true love, well met well met cried he... I've just returned from the salt slat sea, all for the love of thee.
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You do hear it at Renaissance Fesitvals, when people run around talking in very bad British accents in what they think to be old-fashioned language.

"Hail and well met, my good man." But you have to grin and bear it.
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Hay fellow well met sort of guy.
I read it somewhere.
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Yes; e.g. "he's very hail-fellow-well-met", for a bluff and hearty person.

"Ill met" is perhaps the opposite, as in "ill met by moonlight".

MrP
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It is a term of congratulation. It originally comes from the game of cricket when the batter gets a good hit on the ball. The bat "meets" the ball. "Well met" means "good hit". Current usage would be the same as "good job" or any other phrase of congratulation for anything, not just sports.
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