how-do-you-do
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After the usual how-do-you-do, they begin performing for each other and quickly slide into enchanted sync.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
When your first how-do-you-do is followed moments later by being thrown into the trenches of work, there’s no time or reason for last names and family history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
At the door was their neighbor, Geoff Prentiss, just delivering a neighborly how-do-you-do.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
One of them asked why U2 thought they could embed themselves in people’s phones without so much as a how-do-you-do.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
When she finished, she and her length of yellow silk swept out of the store without so much as a how-do-you-do to me.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
At a cocktail party for about 50 notables at a suite in his hotel, Charlie and Oona came late, sat down, and limited their conversation pretty much to how-do-you-dos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tony had got off duty to come and meet us; and after the first "how-do-you-dos," his mother began bombarding him with questions.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
