One on easy, familiar terms. (See Jockey.)
“Hail fellow well met, all dirty and wet;
Find out, if you can, who’s master, who’s man.”
Swift: My Lady’s Lamentation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.