fair to middling | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,usuallyhyphenatedwhen placed before noun)Onlytolerablygood;somewhatfavorable.Synonyms:adequate,OK,tolerable1907,Mark Twain, chapter 7, inChristian Science:"O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind" is pretty good, quitefair 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, inCaptain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates:Not a heluva good one, butfair to middlin’.2009November 20,William C. Rhoden, “Sports of The Times: Iverson Isn’t the Answer for Knicks”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 December 2011:For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players andfair-to-middlingpros attempt to be respectable.

Examples:

EN: - Oh, fair to middling.
ES: - Bastante bien.
ES: - Más o menos.
EN: And if you don't serve me a fair to middling meal, then it's off to the bunkers for you!
ES: Y si no me sirves una comida mediana o buena, ¡Entonces te vamos a los búnkeres!
EN: When there's a fair to middling chance you may not make it.
ES: Mientras haya la posibilidad de que seas tu el que llegue tarde.
EN: I'm doing fair to middling.
ES: Estoy bastante bien.
EN: I'm fair to middling.
ES: Estoy como siempre.
EN: I think I did a fair to middling job.
ES: Creo que lo hice una feria de trabajo de media.
EN: Food's plentiful, conversation fair to middling, health much the same.
ES: Come mucho, su conversación normal, su salud por el estilo.
EN: 'I'm fair to middling. Have you got two minutes for me? '
ES: De coña. ¿Tendrías dos minutos para mí?
EN: Well, fair to middling.
ES: Bueno, para ser justo, regular.
EN: ~ Oh, fair to middling.
ES: - Más o menos bien.
EN: My cooking's fair to middling.
ES: Mi cocina es regular.
EN: see synonyms of fair to middling
HI: देख को चींटी को बेहाल
EN: And the grades of the prime suspect were fair to middling.
HI: बुनियादें सही करवाते थे
EN: In Japan, however, the performance was fair to middling.
HI: परिवेश सुखद बन आया
EN: 17) Dream of fair to middling women
HI: 18। महिला कंधे के लिए प्यारा टैटू विचार

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