fair to middling

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — "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.

词形变化

fair-to-middling alternative fair to middlin' alternative fair to meddling alternative

词源

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 but the first instance of this usage being generalised is from an American publication of 1837
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