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Subject: "yeah I've only ever heard "middling""

shamus
Member since Oct 18th 2004
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Fri Sep-18-20 12:12 PM

5. "yeah I've only ever heard "middling""
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Fri Sep-18-20 12:14 PM by shamus

and it's a common enough phrase wherever

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair%20to%20middling

fair to middling idiom

Definition of fair to middling
: just average : not especially good
The food was fair to middling.

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Subject	Author	Message Date	ID
Born & raised in North Carolina. I'm 43. Never heard that my entire life...	FLUIDJ	Sep 18th 2020	1
My old man used that phrase all the time...	Marbles	Sep 18th 2020	2
Is this a play on "fair to middling?"	navajo joe	Sep 18th 2020	3

I’ve been down south half my life and never heard this before	legsdiamond	Sep 18th 2020	4
Huh based on replies I think I redefined it. Lol.	imcvspl	Sep 18th 2020	6
LMAO thanks for this	napturalmystic	Sep 18th 2020	13
isn't the phrase fair to middling?	shygurl	Sep 18th 2020	7
I’m from San Diego, the only person I’ve heard use it is a tribal el...	calij81	Sep 18th 2020	8
I love SD	Airbreed	Sep 18th 2020	10
I visited once and was ready to move immediately	CherNic	Sep 18th 2020	15
Fair to middling is actually a British phrase	bigkarma	Sep 18th 2020	9
fair to middling...	CyrenYoung	Sep 18th 2020	11
One of Drills in Basic used that ALL the damn time...	Dstl1	Sep 18th 2020	12
just like there's a dog called Petbull	tariqhu	Sep 18th 2020	14

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