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to a fare-thee-well
Idioms and Phrases
To the most extreme degree, especially a condition of perfection. For example, We've cleaned the house to a fare-thee-well , or He played the part of martyr to a fare-thee-well . This term first appeared as to a fare-you-well in the late 1800s, and the more archaic-sounding present form replaced it about 1940.Example Sentences
Think of them as you would your home movies — if those were polled and focus-grouped to a fare-thee-well.
Fuller either used poor tackling technique by leading with his head instead of his shoulder — or, as participants and observers have come to articulate to a fare-thee-well, the speed and territorial demands of this sport simply don't allow the time for textbook form on every play, at least not if you want to succeed.
The former is a lovely sentiment, and the latter is disrespectful of their clear boundaries and guilt-trippy to a fare-thee-well, and awareness can make all the difference.
Sure enough, less than an hour and a half later, here came Geraldo Rivera, one of Trump’s ardent protectors, illustrating her point to a fare-thee-well.
Susan Collins, I can’t imagine the exhaustion of your role as political wild card, scrutinized to a fare-thee-well.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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