1. just average; neither good nor bad

1. Don asked Melissa what she thought of the new restaurant. She told him she had been to better ones, but it wasn’t bad. It was fair to middling.

2. The food was fair to middling.

3. Now that I’m beginning to get over my cold, I’m feeling fair to middling. I feel better than I did last week, but I still have a stuffy nose.

4. Tom: How are you feeling today? Bill: Fair to middlin’.

5. My sewing is excellent, but my cooking is only fair to middlin’.