Tell me more ×  The French idiom “mi figue, mi raisin”
(literally: “half fig, half grape”) refers to someone or
something that is neither entirely good, nor entirely bad. I
guess the meaning of the expression can be rather well conveyed
by translating it as “neither good nor bad”, “not entirely good
or bad”, or “part good, part bad”, but… is there a common
English idiom that express this idea?  share|improve this
question If I may just add a precision to include a possible
origin of this expression. The story goes (here is one source in
English) that Venetian merchants were occasionally cheated by
Greek dried fruit dealers. Consignments of dried grapes
("raisins de Corynthe") could also contain figs, a less prized
commodity. Which might suggest that a possible translation could
include the phrase mixed bag (in addition to lukewarm as
proposed in the source cited above, in a different context). – 
Alain Pannetier Φ Sep 11 '11 at 20:54 add comment  3 Answers  up
vote 5 down vote accepted  A couple of rather-per