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1 comme
adv. & conj.1. C'est tout comme: It's much of a muchness—It comes to the same thing (also: c'est du pareil au comme).2. Etre commeil-faut: To be a respectable character. Ce sont des gens tout à fait comme-il-faut: There's nothing untoward about them at all.3. C'est comme ça! That's the way it is! (and nothing can be done about it!).4. Il est un peu comme ça: He's a bit of a pouf—He's got homosexual leanings.5. Comme ci, comme ça: 'Fair-to-middling', so-so. Mes vieux se portent comme ci, comme ça: The old folk are as well as can be expected. -
2 couci-couça
adv. 'Fair to middling'—Not too good, not too bad. 'Et la santé, comment (a va? ' 'Couci-couça, faut pas s'en plaindre': 'How's your health, then?' 'Well, I'm on the mend'. -
3 maintenir
v. pronom. Ça se maintient (In answer to a question inquiring about someone's health): 'So-so', 'fair-to-middling', no better no worse. -
4 moyen
average, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, way
См. также в других словарях:
middling — middling, middlingly Middling has been used as an adjective in various senses since the 15c, but is now more commonly found as an adverb, a use attested from the 18c. In this role it competes with middlingly, which is recorded from the same date… … Modern English usage
Middling — Mid dling, a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. A town of but middling size. Hallam. [1913 Webster] Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Middling — Middling. См. Промежуточный продукт. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
middling — index average (midmost), fair (satisfactory), imperfect, marginal, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary … Law dictionary
middling — (adj.) 1540s, from Scottish mydlyn (mid 15c.), from MIDDLE (Cf. middle) + suffix ing. Used to designate the second of three grades of goods. As an adverb by 1719 … Etymology dictionary
middling — *medium, mediocre, second rate, moderate, average, fair, indifferent … New Dictionary of Synonyms
middling — [adj] adequate, okay all right, average, common, conventional, decent, fair, fairish, good, indifferent, intermediate, mean, mediocre, medium, moderate, modest, okay, ordinary, passable, run of the mill*, so so*, tolerable, traditional,… … New thesaurus
middling — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ moderate or average. ► ADVERB informal ▪ fairly or moderately … English terms dictionary
middling — [mid′liŋ] adj. [ MID1 + LING1] of middle size, quality, grade, etc.; medium; ordinary; mediocre adv. Informal fairly; moderately; somewhat n. ☆ 1. pork or bacon from between the ham and the shoulder 2. [pl.] products of medium quality, grade,… … English World dictionary
middling — middlingly, adv. /mid ling/, adj. 1. medium, moderate, oraverage in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling. 2. mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant s entrées are no better… … Universalium
middling — [[t]mɪ̱dəlɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n If you describe a quality such as the size of something as middling, you mean that it is average. The Beatles enjoyed only middling success until 1963. ...a man of middling height. Syn: average … English dictionary
