"bid fair" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bids fair",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bidding fair",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bade fair",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bidden fair",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bid<,,bade,bidden> fair"
      },
      "expansion": "bid fair (third-person singular simple present bids fair, present participle bidding fair, simple past bade fair, past participle bidden fair)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 52:",
          "text": "A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established — […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 632:",
          "text": "Yet this English experimentation abruptly ended when Edward, after a healthy and assertive childhood in which he bade fair to be as over-lifesize as his formidable father, died young in 1553.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely."
      ],
      "id": "en-bid_fair-en-verb-0ZrPMoYT",
      "links": [
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually followed by \"to\") To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by \"to\""
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bid fair"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bids fair",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bidding fair",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bade fair",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bidden fair",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bid<,,bade,bidden> fair"
      },
      "expansion": "bid fair (third-person singular simple present bids fair, present participle bidding fair, simple past bade fair, past participle bidden fair)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 52:",
          "text": "A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established — […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 632:",
          "text": "Yet this English experimentation abruptly ended when Edward, after a healthy and assertive childhood in which he bade fair to be as over-lifesize as his formidable father, died young in 1553.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually followed by \"to\") To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by \"to\""
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bid fair"
}