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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

An idiom

Hello,

Could you tell me please what is the meaning of 'fairer' here in this idiom? Treating acccording to the rules, quite good(better), or acceptable? Does it depend on the context?

" You can`t say fairer than that."

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"fairer" here simply means "fairest or best" The reason why that idiom has "fairer" instead of "fairest" lies in the fact that "than that" requires a comparative to precede it (not a superlative) better than that fairer than that fairest than that (this is wrong) This idiom is used when saying that something is the best/fairest offer one can make.

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  • "fairer" here simply means "fairest or best" The reason why that idiom has "fairer" instead of "fairest" lies in the fact that "than that" requires a comparative to precede it (not a superlative) better than that fairer than that fairest than that (this is wrong) This idiom is used when saying that something is the best/fairest offer one can make.
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"fairer" here simply means "fairest or best"

The reason why that idiom has "fairer" instead of "fairest" lies in the fact that "than that" requires a comparative to precede it (not a superlative)

better than that

fairer than that

fairest than that (this is wrong)


This idiom is used when saying that something is the best/fairest offer one can make
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