fair to middling

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fair to middling 的定义

  1. Mediocre, pretty good, so-so, as in I asked them how they liked their new home and John answered, “Fair to middling. This phrase, often a reply to an inquiry about one's health, business, or the like, is redundant, since fair and middling both mean “moderately good.” [Mid-1800s] Also see can't complain.

fair to middling 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

reasonably good

更多fair to middling例句

  1. Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
  2. Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
  3. Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
  4. What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
  5. Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  8. Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
  9. Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
  10. He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.