Dream of Fair to Middling Women has 241 pages.
Dream of Fair to Middling Women was created in 1932.
I hope that my second-rate knowledge and middling talents will carry me farther than my opponent. My health is fair-to-middling.
fair to middling
The cast of A Dream of Fair Women - 1920 includes: Russell Ball
middling to fair, becoming cyclonic, moderate but good.
The Fair Bride has 274 pages.
Saint Peter's Fair has 224 pages.
First of all, "idiom" is probably the intended term. The phrase has been used in different contexts, and evolved, over several centuries. Both "fair" and "middling" (or "middlin'") are terms used to describe various farm products; fruit and other produce, as well as livestock. Because of similar terms in the cotton grading system, and having grown up in a cotton producing area, it was my long held belief that, like "Middling," "Strict Low Middling," and "Low Middling," there was a cotton grade of "Fair to Middling." Well, that's just wrong. Since I use the phrase, and since people sometimes ask me about it, and since -- in ignorance -- I called it a cotton grade, it eventually dawned on me to do some research. In pre-Internet times. After searching without success, I made some phone calls and found a guy who had been in the cotton business 40 years. He assured me that there had been no such cotton grade, to the best of his knowledge, and certainly in his recollection. He's right. The word "Fair" is not in any way used in the cotton grading system. That's not to keep someone, in an informal setting, from calling some cotton, or a crop, or the season, "fair to middling." But, the term is not, and never has been, actually connected to cotton in any kind of exclusive way. So, basically, today, "fair to middling" means that (whatever the subject) could be better, could be worse, but falls somewhere in a possibly broad range approaching indifference or mediocrity.
The term "fair to midland" is a colloquial phrase derived from "fair to middling," which means average or moderate in quality. The expression likely originated in the southern United States as a variation on the original phrase.
Mary L Gaddess has written: 'A dream of fair women and brave men'
There are 137 pages in the book Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant feeling pretty good. You weren't great, but you weren't awful either.