fair to middling

See also: fair-to-middling

English

Alternative forms

fair-to-middling, fair to middlin', fair to meddling

Etymology

From the practice of classifying agricultural commodities as fair or middling. The earliest attested instance of these descriptions being combined into the phrase fair to middling was in a British publication of 1822 [1] but the first instance of this usage being generalised is from an American publication of 1837[2]

Adjective

fair to middling (not comparable)

(idiomatic, usually hyphenated when placed before noun) Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.
Synonyms: adequate, OK, tolerable
- 1907, Mark Twain, chapter 7, in Christian Science:
  "O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind" is pretty good, quite fair to middling—the whole seven of the stanzas—but repetition would be certain to take the excitement out of it in the course of time.
- 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 29, in Captain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates:
  Not a heluva good one, but fair to middlin’.
- 2009 Nov. 20, William C. Rhoden, "Sports of The Times: Iverson Isn’t the Answer for Knicks," New York Times (retrieved 20 Dec 2011):
  For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players and fair-to-middling pros attempt to be respectable.

References

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fair-to-middling.html
https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai4.htm

“fair to middling”, in Collins English Dictionary.

[1] ttps://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fair-to-middling.html

[2] ttps://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai4.htm

单词	fair to middling
释义	fair to middling See also: fair-to-middling English Alternative forms fair-to-middling, fair to middlin', fair to meddling Etymology From the practice of classifying agricultural commodities as fair or middling. The earliest attested instance of these descriptions being combined into the phrase fair to middling was in a British publication of 1822 [1] but the first instance of this usage being generalised is from an American publication of 1837[2] Adjective fair to middling (not comparable) (idiomatic, usually hyphenated when placed before noun) Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable. Synonyms: adequate, OK, tolerable 1907, Mark Twain, chapter 7, in Christian Science: "O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind" is pretty good, quite fair to middling—the whole seven of the stanzas—but repetition would be certain to take the excitement out of it in the course of time. 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 29, in Captain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates: Not a heluva good one, but fair to middlin’. 2009 Nov. 20, William C. Rhoden, "Sports of The Times: Iverson Isn’t the Answer for Knicks," New York Times (retrieved 20 Dec 2011): For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players and fair-to-middling pros attempt to be respectable. References https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fair-to-middling.html https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai4.htm “fair to middling”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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