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fair and square



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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]
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"You can see Lewis was a beaten man and I won the fight fair and square. The ref took my dreams away tonight."

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That Sugar knows this, makes him determined to beat Hezekiah “fair and square.”

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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.

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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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He won fair and square but to call it an overwhelming mandate to dismantle the government is ridiculous.

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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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