bid fair
English
Verb
bid fair (third-person singular simple present bids fair, present participle bidding fair, simple past bade fair, past participle bidden fair)
- (usually followed by "to") To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 632:
- Yet this English experimentation abruptly ended when Edward, after a healthy and assertive childhood in which he bade fair to be as over-lifesize as his formidable father, died young in 1553.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 632:
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