ˈfair-weather, a.
1. Fit or suitable only for calm or fair weather.
| 1810 Naval Chron. XXIV. 69 These fair-weather birds would never put to sea. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 650 The first gale would send the whole of this fairweather armament to the bottom of the Channel. 1883 Manch. Exam. 26 Nov. 5/3 They are all fair-weather craft. |
2. fig.
| 1736 Pope's Lett. 1 Oct. 1730 My Fair-weather friends of the summer are going away for London. 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. iii, That there fair weather Jack (pointing to the young squire). 1828 E. Irving Last Days 287 What a fair-weather service there is of God! 1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 10 Am I to be only a fair⁓weather wife to you? |