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Honky Lips |
Fair to middling is a term I enjoy using once in a while, I learned it from likely my dad. But it seems when I use it a lot of people don't know it. I'm wondering just how out of the lexicon it is. here's what it means and where it's from for those so inclined https://www.phrases.org.uk/mea...air-to-middling.html | ||
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Age Quod Agis |
Very familiar with the term. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
It is a term I have heard many times, mostly in my youth. flahguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Member |
Pretty common here in LA. "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Yup. Usually with the ending "g" dropped: "Fair to middlin'." "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Doubtful... |
This Best regards, Tom I have no comment at this time. | |||
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Funny Man |
My grandfather used the term often in my youth. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
Yes, this term came to me via my mom and her family. Never heard my dad’s side use it
—————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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The Joy Maker |
I am familiar with it, but it's not a common saying around here. 
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Member |
This, during my early years ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| Member |
I grew up hearing/using the term, and still do from time to time. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yes, used as ensigmatic describes.  | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
If you asked my late father-in-law how he was doing... it was usually "Fair to middling" "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Member |
Yes, again. I've used the term many times and still do. | |||
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| Man Once Child Twice |
Just heard it again last week on The Andy Griffith Show. Andy and Barney were talking to a salesman played but Sterling Holloway. The episode is called Merchant of Mayberry. Excellent episode. All the little sayings are in it. | |||
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Member |
Here in alabama, i hear that everyday. Regards, P. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Heard of it, but I don't use it, nor can I recall anybody using it. | |||
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| Member |
Born and raised down South, hear it all the time. My dad's mother, God rest her soul, said it every conversation you had with her when you asked her how she was doing. She lived well into her 90's spry every day of her life but the last one. | |||
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Member |
This ^^^^ and still hear/use it once in a while. | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
My father said it often. | |||
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