set fair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more set fair
form: most set fair
Senses: examples: text: The economies of north America, western Europe and parts of Asia seemed to be set fair for many decades of growth fuelled by the high carbon systems of production and consumption.
ref: 2011, John Urry, Climate Change and Society, →ISBN, page 48:
text: All seemed to be set fair for English power across the Channel but in 1369 the new French king, Charles V, known as Charles the Wise, reasserted his feudal rights over all the territories of France.
ref: 2011, Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England, →ISBN:
text: Sure enough reform, when it came, achieved almost exactly what the Whigs had hoped: as soon as the industrial employing classes were brought into government, most agitation subsided, and all seemed set fair for stability.
ref: 2012, Lindsey German, John Rees, A People's History of London, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Robert Zemeckis’s forthcoming Allied is set fair to be a great big blockbuster, a swooning second world war romantic drama.
ref: 2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Favorable; propitious.
examples: text: There was just a chance this morning that, if the weather looked very 'set fair', we might make another attempt, but although at the camp it was beautifully fine, we could still see signs of wind & drift on the sea slopes of Terror & the temperature was rather low.
ref: 2004, Reginald William Skelton (Judy V. Skelton), The Antarctic Journals of Reginald Skelton:
text: It is crucial to have all the machines ready to go when the grass is at its peak and the weather is set fair for two or three days, and when the engineer said that the baler was working fine, we eagerly looked at the weather forecast.
ref: 2005, Linda Watson, The Ladies of Low Arvie: Living the Farming Dream, →ISBN, page 158:
text: They would trad with the Orks again -- in better weather next time. They quickly left while it looked set fair.
ref: 2007, Margarett Mirley, Closing the Helix, →ISBN:
text: So early one morning, when the weather seemed set fair, Rochelle told Laurie about the food store.
ref: 2012, Judith Saxton, This Royal Breed, →ISBN:
text: Although there was still some ice and snow in the gullies and valleys that we encountered on the trek up, it was otherwise quite a clear morning and conditions were set fair as we set off.
ref: 2015, Gary Stidder, Becoming a Physical Education Teacher, →ISBN, page xi:
glosses: In a state of settled fair weather.
examples: text: All must have looked set fair by the time Hogg returned to Scotland in March 1832, and early reports suggested a rapid sale of 1500 copies of the first volume, representing the first tranche of a printing of 3000.
ref: 2012, Ian Duncan, Douglas Mack, The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg, →ISBN, page 29:
text: At the racecourse, I could tell Red Rum was very well in himself and looked set fair in the sunshine.
ref: 2014, Ginger Mccain, My Colourful Life: From Red to Amber, →ISBN:
text: His version of 'Myfanwy' was given the thumbs-up by CBS and we looked set fair. Set fair, that is, until one of their promotion guys heard it.
ref: 2014, Mike Read, Seize the Day, →ISBN:
glosses: In good shape.