fair-weather friend

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fair-weather friend

Fig. someone who is your friend only when things are pleasant or going well for you. Bill stayed for lunch but he wouldn't help me with the yard work. He's just a fair-weather friend. A fair-weather friend isn't much help in an emergency.

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Byline: Joe Riley THE feckless fair-weather friends who thought the office of lord mayor would be ex-Lib-Dem leader Mike Storey''s ticket to oblivion, are, methinks, in for the shock of their lives. Next chapter in Mike's story by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Whilst someone may be revealed as being a fair-weather friend, in the weeks to come a tie with another pal, can go from strength to strength. Your Stars by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) You have a fair-weather friend They may not be the most reliable mate, but they'd never intentionally hurt you. Friend or frenemy? As Gwyneth Paltrow admits to being fooled by a ... by The Mirror (London, England)			fag fag out fagged out fail fail in fail on faint faint dead away faint from Faint heart never won fair lady faint of heart fair fair and impartial fair and square fair dinkum Fair do's fair enough fair game fair out fair play fair shake fair to middlin' fair to middling Fair's fair fair-haired boy fair-weather friend faire fairer fairy fairy godmother fait faith Faith will move mountains fake fake it fake off fake out fake out of fall fall afoul of fall all over fall apart fall asleep fall at fall away fall away toward fall back fall back on fall below fall beneath fall between			Fair-leader fair-maids-of-France fair-minded fair-minded fair-mindedly fair-mindedly fair-mindedness fair-mindedness Fair-natured Fair-pleading Fair-Price Amendment Fair-Price Amendments Fair-Reactive Adaptation Controller Fair-Share Remote Scheduling fair-sized fair-skinned fair-spoken fair-trade fair-trade act fair-trade agreement Fair-Trade Law Fair-Trade Law Fair-trade laws Fair-trade laws Fair-trade laws fair-traded fair-trades fair-trading fair-weather Fair-weather cumulus fair-weather friend fair-weather friends Fair-weather sailor Fair-world FAIRA Fairbairn Capital Trophy Wine Show Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd. Fairbairn, Sir William Fairbank, John K. Fairbank, John King Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin and Associates Fairbank, William M., Sr. Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Area Orbital Tracking Station Fairbanks Association of Bed and Breakfasts Fairbanks Command Data Acquisition Station Fairbanks Community Band Fairbanks Community Mental Health Center Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Fairbanks disease Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc. Fairbanks Junior Dog Mushers Association Fairbanks Light Opera Theater Fairbanks Men's Hockey Association

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