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say hello to my little friend

say hello to my little friend phrase: used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.

Phrase

say hello to my little friend

  1. Used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.
    • This is the same Lindsey Graham who thinks he needs his AR-15 in case "there was a law-and-order breakdown in my community." You say tomato, I say "Say hello to my little friend."2015 April 16, Paul Waldman, The Plum Line: Happy Hour Roundup, Washington Post (retrieved 22 June 2021)
    • Say hello to my little friend. Hideous, isn’t he? […] He's a replica of a tiny 20 cm. black-lacquered bronze statue in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. […] Listed under "grotesque animal," and probably 17th century by the engraver Arent van Bolten, he "stands on high legs with an open beak. On the place of...2016 August 10, Heather Mallick, Opinion: Meet little Spitey and be better than him, The Star (Toronto, Canada) (retrieved 22 June 2021)

Origin of say hello to my little friend

From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which gangster Tony Montana (Al Pacino) brandishes an assault rifle.

Questions about say hello to my little friend

What does say hello to my little friend mean?
Say hello to my little friend means used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.
What part of speech is say hello to my little friend?
Say hello to my little friend is a phrase.

Words near say hello to my little friend in the dictionary

  1. say cheese
  2. say gex
  3. say goodbye
  4. say grace
  5. say hello
  6. say hello to my little friend
  7. say it ain't so
  8. say it all
  9. say it louder for the ones in the back
  10. say it, don't spray it
  11. say la vee

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