Etymology

comme ci comme ça

Today it means: Neither good nor bad; so so; tolerable, passable, indifferent. Full definition →

French comme ci comme ça
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  1. French · borrowed fromcomme ci comme ça
  2. English todaycomme ci comme ça

Borrowed from French comme ci comme ça (literally “like this like that”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.