| 单词 | set fair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasset fair c. Of a kind of weather: Persistent, likely to continue some time. So quasi-adv. in set fair (also figurative and in extended use). set fair is usually marked on English barometers at the point indicating that the height of the mercury is 30½ inches. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > settled settleda1665 steady1694 set1699 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 55 Then you have set Rains till the latter end of August. a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 281 To the next half-inch below this highest point are written set fair on the one side, and set frost on the other. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 162 The road..was certainly enough to have shaken tempers that were not resolutely at Set Fair, down to some inches below Stormy. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 108 Like some kindly weathercock..stuck fast at Set Fair. 1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget xxix. 197 Her mood, like our weather that April, was almost always ‘set fair’. 1978 J. Pearson Façades xxiii. 399 Everything appeared set fair for the happiest of stays. set fair set fair is usually marked on English barometers at the point indicating that the height of the mercury is 30½ inches.extracted from setadj.1< as lemmas |
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