"fair to midlin'"
Posted by Victoria S Dennis on April 15, 2006
In Reply to: "Fair to midlin'" posted by ESC on April 15, 2006
: : What is higher than "midlin'" in "fair to midlin'" ?
: This from a July 2000 discussion: The word "middling" meaning of average size, mediocre size or quality, etc., dates from about 1550.
: So the next step up would be...fair to super size?
I've always understood "fair" and "middling" to be synonyms, so "fair to middling" is analogous to "so-so", or "six of one and half a dozen of another".
- "Fair to midlin'" Smokey Stover 16/April/06