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Meaning of "fair to middling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAIR TO MIDDLING

fair to middling play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAIR TO MIDDLING

fair and square
fair copy
fair dinkum
fair do´s
fair enough!
fair game
fair go!
Fair Isle
fair play
fair rent
fair sex
fair trade
fair-haired
fair-haired boy
fair-minded
fair-mindedness
fair-sized
fair-skinned
fair-spoken
fair-spokenness

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAIR TO MIDDLING

baggage handling
bloodcurdling
calling
codling
cradling
dawdling
dwindling
fiddling
handling
idling
kindling
meddling
middling
mishandling
muddling
noodling
piddling
puddling
sandling
seedling
waddling

Synonyms and antonyms of fair to middling in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fair to middling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAIR TO MIDDLING

Find out the translation of fair to middling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fair to middling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fair to middling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公平产中等
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

justo medianamente
570 millions of speakers

English

fair to middling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मंझला के लिए उचित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المعرض إلى تقديس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

справедливо средней руки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Fair para regular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃদু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

juste à médiocre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adil kepada umum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

durchwachsen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

まあまあするフェア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중간급 하는 공정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adil kanggo middling
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

công bằng cho middling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெய்ஞானம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिडलींगपासून ते बरोबर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Orta halli olmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

giusto middling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprawiedliwe taka sobie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

справедливо середньої руки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corect la mijlociu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίκαιο να middling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

regverdig om te middelmatig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

falkenerare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nesten godt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fair to middling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR TO MIDDLING»

The term «fair to middling» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.201 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR TO MIDDLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fair to middling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAIR TO MIDDLING»

Discover the use of fair to middling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fair to middling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Beckett submitted the novel to several English publishers, all of whom found it too scandalous, too risky (or, said some, too risque), or too literary. Subsequently Beckett put the work aside, although he pilfered from it from time to time.
Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, Edith Fournier, 2011
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Fair to Middling: Slavery and Status in the Poetry of ...
Hannah More, Helen Maria Williams, and Ann Yearsley diverge on many points, but what they share is their insistence to perform the authorship they imagine.
Elizabeth Diane Phillips, 2008
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Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING: BECKETT'S DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN JOHN PILLING This essay examines the negational strategies operative in Beckett's jettisoned first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, posthumously ...
Colleen Jaurretche, 2005
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All Sturm and No Drang: Beckett and Romanticism : Beckett at ...
(Beckett 1992, 102) Much of Dream of Fair to Middling Women (hereafter Dream) is a picaresque account of the “incoherent reality of the individual” (Dream, 101) which for Belacqua arises from his difficulty in reconciling love and sex, and ...
Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon, 2007
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The Devil's Storybook
A lot of people, all of them fair-to-middling, disliked her very much because of this , but Angela didn't care. She just went right on being perfect and let things go as they would. Now, when the Devil heard about Angela, he was revolted. “Not,” he  ...
Natalie Babbitt, 2010
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Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett's Disjunctions
The book describes Beckett's divergence from Proustian metaphor and the revelation of the "real" towards an art which exploited the gaps and fissures within language and narrative and, ultimately, to an art which would go on to upset the ...
Paul Stewart, 2006
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A Companion to Samuel Beckett
His books include: A Samuel Beckett Chronology (2006), A Companion to Dream of Fair to middling Women (2004), Beckett before Godot (1997), Samuel Beckett ( 1976), and, with James Knowlson, Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and ...
S. E. Gontarski, 2010
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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present
Two novels helped establish Calder-Marshall's reputation as a fiction writer: The Fair to Middling (1959), a mystery about disfigured orphans whose experiences at a traveling fair teach them that they would have accomplished far less in their ...
George Stade, Karen Karbiener, 2009
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
2. fair to middling Mediocre, pretty good, so-so, as in Iasked them how they liked their new home and Iohn answered, “Fair to middling.” This phrase, often a replay to an inquiry about one's health, business, or the like, is redundant, sincefair ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries
... reveal the "something or nothing" between words. Beckett in fact says as much in the 1932 fragment Dream of Fair to Middling Women (another seminal text to which Deleuze often alludes), in which the character Belacqua voices his desire  ...
Ronald Bogue, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAIR TO MIDDLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fair to middling is used in the context of the following news items.
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It's not just the out-of-towners who can't read or follow sport fishing …
Dipnetting conquests for sockeyes in China Poot is fair to middling. The peak of this run is about the middle of July. Razor Clam Emergency ... «Homer News, Jul 15»
2
Bob Hunter commentary | Second wild card gives Reds, Indians hope
But conducting a fire sale for fair to middling prospects makes no sense as long as the second wild card is still attainable to any plodding team ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
3
First drive Honda HR-V 2015
Of course, it isn't a perfect indicator of what lease deals will cost, but residuals are expected to be fair to middling, so we can see that being a ... «Contract hire and leasing news, Jul 15»
4
Great Conversations: Robert Evans
A fair to middling actor by his own admission, Evans' career as a thespian fizzled out as quickly as it started. Evans returned to "being in ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Conspiracy theory
The specimen of Brogpa snout in front of us was a fair to middling one, attached to a face that wasn't exactly Nordic white. She wasn't ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
6
Kinder, Gentler School Board
#Overall, the board gave itself fair to middling marks. #“Nobody thought we were unsatisfactory in any area,” said Underwood. #Some of the ... «Payson Roundup, Jun 15»
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WEPL GLOS/WILTS DIVISION: Fair to middling is not enough for …
SWINDON skipper Andy Staff knows his side must be at the top of their game in the 'tough' Glos/Wilts Division after suffering a 19-run defeat to ... «This Is Wiltshire, Jun 15»
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The Battle for Boxing: Cotto-Alvarez-Golovkin
... Ceasar Chavez, Jr., in recent years Alvarez faced warranted scrutiny for feasting on fair to middling fodder under bright lights for big money. «Bloguin, Jun 15»
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Dominic George: High on the Highlanders if they win
Fair to middling, a bit-rep player who hated training but loved the game. End of story. So I'm hobbling and swaying my way through 1999 when ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
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Elephone P7000 review
Overall the definition is excellent, but the color reproduction is fair to middling, with colors lacking vibrancy and the whites seeming pale. Having ... «Android Authority, Jun 15»

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