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(idiomatic) To the greatest extent or to completion; to a state of refinement or perfection.
- It will do little for the future of immunization to prepare excellent vaccines, test them to a fare-thee-well for safety and efficacy, and then not insure that they are adequately used. 1961, Geoffrey Edsall, “The Future of Immunization”, in Public Health Reports, volume 76, number 9, page 816:
- 2007, Steve Forbes, Fact and Comment: Unindicted Blunderer, Forbes, 17 Sep., Market participants are painfully learning the limits to slicing and dicing mortgages to a fine fare-thee-well.
- "She's all dolled up to a fare-you-well to-night," continued Clark. 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “(please specify the page)”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

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