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fair-weather friend
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a fair-weather friend
someone who is only your friend when you are happy and successful. I had a lot of money and I knew a lot of people, but most of them turned out to be fair-weather friends.
See also: friend


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But experts said politicians, of all people, should be accustomed to having fair-weather friends.
Shame on the Frenchies, Germans, Russians and other fair-weather friends who opposed our retribution on Saddam for the 9-11 terror atrocities
Or perhaps some of liberty's fair-weather friends are fickle pals of federalism as well.
 
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