fair-to-middling

一般至中等水平一般到中等水平公平至中等水平一般到中等的水平

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

fair-to-middling

等同于 equitable

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.