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Using “Fair to middling”

middling so in the middle so about 50% so how are you fair to middling so somewhere in between fair and middling somewhere in between 50% and 50% in other words 50% how are you...

Course: Natural questions and small talkSection: Natural replies to “How are you?”Subtitles: en

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also

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middling so in the middle so about 50%

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so how are you fair to middling

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so somewhere in between fair and

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middling somewhere in between 50% and

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50% in other words 50% how are you fair

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to middlin again it means neither great

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nor terrible right in the middle not bad

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all right okay fair to Midland now if

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you want to be positive and please I

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recommend you to be positive we all need

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to be more positive then you can say I'm

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good how are you I'm good I did a video

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on the difference between well and good

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a while ago I did say that this is

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actually grammatically incorrect but I

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also said that people say this all the

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time I say this all the time so how you

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I'm good it's just nice to be a bit more

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positive than yeah not bad okay all

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right can't complain and if you're not

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brave enough to be good you can be

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pretty good how are you pretty good

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Wow even that sounds more positive than

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all the usual

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