Idiom
fair-weather fan
Meaning
A fan who only pays attention to their favorite team when they are performing well.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is just a fair-weather fan who only watches winning games.”
“A fair-weather fan never stays to watch the team lose a difficult game.”
“When the team started losing every game, the stadium emptied because most of the crowd were just fair-weather fans.”
“You can tell she is a fair-weather fan because she stopped wearing the team jersey as soon as they fell to the bottom of the league.”
“My brother claims to love basketball, but he acts like a fair-weather fan by only checking the scores when the playoffs begin.”
“True supporters stay loyal through every defeat, unlike the fair-weather fans who only appear when the team is celebrating a championship victory.”
Examples
simple
“He is just a fair-weather fan who only watches winning games.”
“A fair-weather fan never stays to watch the team lose a difficult game.”
contextual
“When the team started losing every game, the stadium emptied because most of the crowd were just fair-weather fans.”
“You can tell she is a fair-weather fan because she stopped wearing the team jersey as soon as they fell to the bottom of the league.”
“My brother claims to love basketball, but he acts like a fair-weather fan by only checking the scores when the playoffs begin.”
complex
“True supporters stay loyal through every defeat, unlike the fair-weather fans who only appear when the team is celebrating a championship victory.”
Origin
From fair-weather and fan, the term draws an analogy between the presence of clear skies and the absence of social or competitive difficulty. The compound suggests a preference for trouble-free times, implying that the individual's loyalty is contingent upon the climate remaining agreeable.
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