The students and faculty are on a first-name basis and the environment is one of openness and mutual respect.
The idioms on a first-name basis and being on first-name terms allude to the familiarity of addressing another by a given name.
It is a school policy that teachers are referred to on a first-name basis.
The panel and host were generally on a first-name basis.
The teaching staff is extraordinarily unique because not only do students and teachers are on a first-name basis, teachers are any age above 15.
Starters could only mail the folder to someone they actually knew personally on a first-name basis.
Both men became close friends at that time, remaining on a first-name basis for the rest of their lives.
Within the company the manner is very casual and everybody has to be on a first-name basis.
