friend of a friend

Example Sentences

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I’d charged my customer $100, which was low considering all the work that went into them, but she is a friend of a friend and a teacher.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

“A friend of a friend was stunned to find out that Jessica is a modern artist,” Matt McDermott, Pratt’s partner and collaborator, said over the phone.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024

It was at the hotel that I met Abdelali, a friend of a friend of a friend.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2023

“Tonight I’ll shave,” he writes, “have two drinks with a friend /of a friend, but that was last week and I canceled.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

This was obviously the point where she, Gilly, was supposed to come into the story, but it still seemed far too remote, like something that had happened once to a friend of a friend.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson