Usually means: Average, moderately good, not bad.
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  1. fair to middling: Merriam-Webster
  2. fair-to-middling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fair to middling: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. fair to middling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fair-to-middling, fair to middling: Wiktionary
  7. fair to middling: Dictionary.com
  8. fair to middling: Rhymezone
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  13. Fair to middling: World Wide Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fair to middling)

▸ adjective:  (idiomatic, usually hyphenated when placed before noun) Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.

Similar:
adequate, satisfactory, passable, fair-to-middling, fair to middlin', fair-to-middlin', fair to meddling, decentish, half-decent, halfway decent, more...

Phrases:
from fair to middling, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, more...

Adjectives:
medium, moderate, maximal, maximum, max, tidy, affinitive, circumjacent, supramaximal, timely

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Similar:
adequate, satisfactory, passable, fair-to-middling, fair to middlin', fair-to-middlin', fair to meddling, decentish, half-decent, halfway decent, more...

Phrases:
from fair to middling, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, more...

Adjectives:
medium, moderate, maximal, maximum, max, tidy, affinitive, circumjacent, supramaximal, timely



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