fair to middling
短语过得去, 还算好
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US
别名
fair-to-middling
fair to middlin'
fair to meddling
释义与例句
adj.
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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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