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fair and square
Idioms and Phrases
Just and honest, as in He won the race fair and square . This redundant expression— fair and square mean essentially the same thing—probably owes its long life to its rhyme. [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
He denied being "bribed" by Oricom and that any contract with NHS Lanarkshire was won "fair and square".
"You can see Lewis was a beaten man and I won the fight fair and square. The ref took my dreams away tonight."
That Sugar knows this, makes him determined to beat Hezekiah “fair and square.”
It is a brazen power grab disguised as a legal maneuver, akin to a child overcome by a tantrum who insists on rewriting the rules of a game he lost fair and square.
The ruling party, Georgian Dream, says it won the vote fair and square and insists it’s the largely ceremonial president, Salome Zourabichvili, who has no legitimacy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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