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fair to meddling

fair to meddling is the alternative form of fair to middling.

Meaning of fair to middling

Adjective

fair to middling (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, usually hyphenated when placed before noun) Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.
    • "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.1907, Mark Twain, chapter 7, in Christian Science
    Synonyms:
    adequate, OK, tolerable

Questions about fair to meddling

What is fair to meddling the alternative form of?
Fair to meddling is the alternative form of fair to middling.

Words near fair to meddling in the dictionary

  1. fair share
  2. fair suck of the pineapple
  3. fair suck of the sauce bottle
  4. fair suck of the sauce stick
  5. fair suck of the sav
  6. fair to meddling
  7. fair to middlin'
  8. fair to middling
  9. fair trade
  10. fair trades
  11. fair trial

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