fair to middling

短语

过得去, 还算好

发音

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别名

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

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.

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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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