Idioms About Friendship

Idioms about Friendship in English! Proverbs about Friendships. Here are over 40 English language idioms and sayings about friend and friendship which will no doubt be helpful when you speak English with others.

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List of Friendship Idioms

Here is a list of popular idioms talking about friends and friendships in English:

Like two peas in a pod
To be as thick as thieves
To bury the hatchet
To clear the air
A shoulder to cry on
Strike up a friendship
To see eye to eye with someone
Friends in high places
To know someone inside out
To build bridges
Birds of a feather flock together
To hit it off
To get on like a house on fire
To speak the same language
To get on swimmingly
Close-knit
Through thick and thin
To be joined at the hip
To be on the same page/wavelength
To get on famously
To make strange bedfellows
To move in the same circles

Idioms Related to Friendship with Meaning

Like two peas in a pod

Two people or things that are very similar to each other, or go very well together.

To be as thick as thieves

To be very close or friendly

To bury the hatchet

Make peace; end a quarrel, settle one’s differences to become friends again.

To clear the air

Get rid of all doubts and negative feelings.

A shoulder to cry on

Someone who listens to your problems

Strike up a friendship

Meaning: To become friends

To see eye to eye with someone

To agree with someone

Friends in high places

Have friends who have important or influential positions

To know someone inside out

To know someone very well

To build bridges

To promote friendly relations between people or groups

Birds of a feather flock together

People who have the same outlook/tastes/interests will be found in each other’s company

To hit it off

To find yourself immediately and naturally friendly with someone

To get on like a house on fire

To get on very well with someone

To speak the same language

To understand someone, as a result, your shared values or opinions

To get on swimmingly

To get on very well with someone

Close-knit

United or bound together by strong relationships and common interests.

Through thick and thin

Under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.

To be joined at the hip

To be extremely close to someone, so you don’t like to be apart.

To be on the same page/wavelength

To be in agreement

To get on famously

To get on very well with someone

To make strange bedfellows

To make unlikely companions

To move in the same circles

To socialize with the same people all of whom have a similar background or lifestyle

Proverbs and Saying about Friendships

A proverb is a simple, concrete, traditional saying that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs give some form of life advice. And the following is the most common proverbs relating to friends and friendships:

A friend’s eye is a good mirror. (Irish Proverb)
True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare, false friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. (Turkish proverb)
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. (Latin Proverb)
Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there.
A good friend is like a four – leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have. (Irish Proverb)
Best friend doesn’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped taking.
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A dog is man’s best friend
A friend to all is a friend to none
A man is known by his friends
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
False friends are worse than open enemies
Friends are thieves of time
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept
Friendship is love with understanding
A friend at hand is better than a relative at a distance
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer
Lend your money. Lose your friend
A man who has friends must himself be friendly
The rich knows not who is his friend
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen