Any other folks use and/or enjoy the English idiom fair-to-middling?

We like that it conveys the idea that something isn't good, but not entirely awful, whilst sounding rather pleasant.

e.g.,
Person 1: "How are you doing today?"
Person 2: "Eh, fair-to-middling."

Not sure if it technically counts as litotes, but it very much has the same feeling as litotic idioms like "not bad" or "could be worse".

Simultaneously, it sounds to our neurospicy mind like someone's paying the fare (transport cost) to travel to a quaint town called Middling 🤭

Indeed, the idiom is sometimes still misinterpreted as "fare to Midland".

We just think it's neat 🤭

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