OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19859

fair-weather friend

/ˈfɛəˌwɛðə ˈfɹɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amigo de buen temperie
One who is friendly, helpful, or available only when it is advantageous or convenient to be so.
Ere long a portion of the village spire began to appear among the trees, and the gilded telltale on its top, in which the slippery politician, and the fair weather friend, and the…
[T]he liberty of the press was not to be looked upon as fit only for seasons of calmness, as a fair-weather friend to be discarded in a storm.
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