buddy-buddy

The ideal is that reporters and sources never really have buddy-buddy relationships.

His erratic statements on the Russia-Ukraine War have never granted confidence that he will continue to support this infrastructure for the Eastern European country, or even for the civilians suffering in Gaza, in light of his buddy-buddy relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A crew-cut, pot-bellied tobacco chewer who had no patience for the “buddy-buddy” school of management, Herzog joined the Cardinals in 1980 and helped end the team’s decade-plus pennant drought by adapting it to the artificial surface and distant fences of Busch Memorial Stadium.

And given that there’s been a drastic decline since 1990 in the number of close friendships men have, it makes sense that they’d ask for the same buddy-buddy ribbing where it’s easiest to search for new connections.

Will they, à la Emmanuel Macron, try to placate him and be like buddy-buddy, or will they be, "OK, here's a world leader that we have to work against rather than try to lead him in our direction."