not exchange more than some number of words with someone
- not exchange more than some number of words with someone
exchange no more than some number of words withsomeone & not exchange more than some number of words with someone & hardly exchange more thansome number of words with someone & scarcely exchange more than some number of words withsomeone
to say hardly anything to someone. (Always negative.) •
I know Tom was there, but I am sure that I didn't exchange more than three words with him before he left.
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We hardly exchanged more than two words the whole evening.
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Sally and Liz didn't have enough time to exchange more than five words.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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