| 词汇 | a fair-weather friend |
| 释义 | Idiom 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. fair-weather friendSomeone who remains a friend only when things are going well but abandons others during times of trouble or difficulty. I thought Allison and I had a strong friendship, but I learned she was just another fair-weather friend when she stopped talking to me after my divorce. a fair-weather friendsomeone who cannot be relied on in a crisis. 1998 Spectator The Americans gave up supplying gold on demand to other countries' central banks at £35 an ounce…when their fair-weather friends from London threatened to turn up and clean them out. a ˌfair-weather ˈfriend(disapproving) somebody who is only a friend when it is pleasant for them, and stops being a friend when you are in trouble: I really thought she’d be here to help me, but it seems that she’s just a fair-weather friend. |
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