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Meaning of fair to middling | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“"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.”
“Not a heluva good one, but fair to middlin’.”
“For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players and fair-to-middling pros attempt to be respectable.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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