fair to middling

fair to middling
only tolerably good

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  • fair to middling — adjective HUMOROUS not bad but not very good …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • fair to middling — adjective about average; acceptable more than adequate as a secretary • Syn: ↑adequate, ↑passable, ↑tolerable • Similar to: ↑satisfactory • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • fair to middling — moderately good, about average, so so    How s the barley crop this year? Oh, fair to middling. Could use a good rain …   English idioms

  • fair to middling — informal neither very good nor very bad. What s your French like? Oh, fair to middling …   New idioms dictionary

  • fair-to-middling — slightly above average she manages to capitalize on some fair to middling material …   Useful english dictionary

  • fair to middling — Synonyms and related words: betwixt and between, dull, fair, fairish, indifferent, insipid, lackluster, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, modest, namby pamby, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, passable, respectable, so so, tedious, tolerable,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • From fair to middling — Fair Fair (f[^a]r), a. [Compar. {Fairer}; superl. {Fairest}.] [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. f[ae]ger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. f[ u]gen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fair to middling — idi inf only tolerably good; so so …   From formal English to slang

  • Dream of Fair to Middling Women —   …   Wikipedia

  • Fair — (f[^a]r), a. [Compar. {Fairer}; superl. {Fairest}.] [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. f[ae]ger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. f[ u]gen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and prob. also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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