Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

say hello to my little friend

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: say hel-lo -to my lit-tle friend
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.

Example Sentences

"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.""
"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 the wings sits the spiralling part of a cochlea (snail shell); its genitals are quite prominent.""
"Halstead then turned the camera on himself, holding the meat cleaver as he said: "Say hello to my little friend.""

Etymology

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

Questions

What does say hello to my little friend mean?: Used to describe a situation involving the display of an object that is menacing or unpleasantly excessive, especially a large firearm.
Where does say hello to my little friend come from?: From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which gangster Tony Montana (Al Pacino) brandishes an assault rifle.

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