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Fair-and-square   /fɛr-ənd-skwɛr/   Listen
adjective
fair-and-square  adj.  Fair and honest; just. Opposite of unfair. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: honest.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fair-and-square" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the spider does not kill her prey by a mere fair-and-square bite alone. She has recourse to the art of the Palmers and Brinvilliers. All spiders, as far as known, are provided with poison-fangs in the jaws, which sometimes, as in the tarantula and many other large tropical kinds, well known to me in Jamaica and elsewhere, are sufficiently ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen

... just right," nodded Anstey. "If you weren't Mr. Edwards would stop it. He's running this fight on the fair-and-square. If I have a fight I hope it will be my luck to have Mr. ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock



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