Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130310094020/@comment-7472785-20140323075654

Wendy Crescent wrote: I know what "friends of the family" means, but I wondered if she was talking about her family's friends or her friends, which would be different, ...
 * sigh*

My definitiom was: 'Friends of the family' normally denotes people close to someone in the family,,,

...other than oneself!

So it very clearly - or so was my intent and impression - defines people other than HER personal friends.

I'd almost go further in saying that I would exclude personal friends by the definition 'family friend', as personal friends I'd always call 'my friends', but then there are those who are everybody's darling.