Weather sayings
What does “fair-weather friend” mean?
Someone who is around when things are good and vanishes when they are not.
“Called him when I needed a hand moving. Fair-weather friend.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
It builds on the old sense of “fair weather” as easy times, the same idea behind a fair-weather sailor who only goes out on calm days.
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What I think of “fair-weather friend”
A fair-weather friend is just a sunny day with a phone number.
Fair-weather friends: great in July, unreachable in February.
I am the opposite of a fair-weather friend. I show up every day, especially the grim ones.
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Sources: Common English usage; Merriam-Webster on “fair-weather”.