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fair play
noun
- just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct:
The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
fair play
noun
- an established standard of decency, honesty, etc
- abidance by this standard
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fair play1
Idioms and Phrases
Conformity to established rules; upright conduct and equitable conditions. For example, The coach insists on fair play . Shakespeare used this idiom in King John (5:2): “According to the fair play of the world, let me have audience.” [Late 1500s] Also see turnabout is fair play .Example Sentences
The reason for high egg prices was still bird flu, not presidential policy—but in politics, turnabout is fair play, and Trump certainly didn’t give the impression he was making the matter a priority.
If Trent Alexander-Arnold does join Real Madrid this summer, fair play to him.
The L.A. native had a marathon year in 2023 — appearing in “Cocaine Bear,” “Fair Play,” best picture winner “Oppenheimer” and writing, directing and starring in the short film “Shadow Brother Sunday” — and he’s not slowing down anytime soon.
Richards called the charges against him and his club "ridiculous", claiming that fair play was "in-built" to his coaching.
Why not take a page from FDR, who said on the eve of his first landslide reelection: “Most of us whether we earn wages, run farms or businesses, are in one sense businessmen. All they seek and all we seek is fair play based on the greater good of the greater numbers.”
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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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