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to a fare-you-well

to a fare-you-well is the alternative form of to a fare-thee-well.

Meaning of to a fare-thee-well

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) To the greatest extent or to completion; to a state of refinement or perfection.
    • "She's all dolled up to a fare-you-well to-night," continued Clark.1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “(please specify the page)”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

Questions about to a fare-you-well

What is to a fare-you-well the alternative form of?
To a fare-you-well is the alternative form of to a fare-thee-well.

Words near to a fare-you-well in the dictionary

  1. to a degree
  2. to a desire
  3. to a fare thee well
  4. to a fare you well
  5. to a fare-thee-well
  6. to a fare-you-well
  7. to a fault
  8. to a fine fare-thee-well
  9. to a first approximation
  10. to a great extent
  11. to a greater extent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to a fare-you-well (page history and authors); to a fare-thee-well (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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