主要内容：
【Words for ' friends'】

a pal a mate an acquaintance: a companion:

【Idioms about friendship】
·a shoulder to cry on It's always good to talk to Hilary, she's so sympathetic. She's a real shoulder to cry on
·see eye to eye They don't always see eye to eye on politics but they're still great friends
·no love lost There's no love lost between her and her in-laws. They used to be best friends but they had a huge fight about money. Now there's no love lost between them
·hate someone's guts They fell out and now she hates his guts
·clear the air I hated the way he kept borrowing things without asking me but we had a chat about it and cleared the air so now he knows to check with me first
·bury the hatchet After years of arguing about politics with my dad, we finally decided to bury the hatchet and stopped trying to change other's opinions
·patch up our differences I used to fight a lot with my sister. My mum would always make us apologise and patch up our differences so that we would be friends again
·through thick and thin His wife stuck faithfully to him through thick and thin