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fair and square

  1. 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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That's how they can go from humiliating Verstappen and Red Bull in Miami to being beaten fair and square in Imola - although had Piastri held on to the lead at the first corner on Sunday, he may well have been able to take a defensive win in a similar fashion to Verstappen's in Japan.

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He denied being "bribed" by Oricom and that any contract with NHS Lanarkshire was won "fair and square".

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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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