English · Word pair Attested

fair and square

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

Honestly and straightforwardly.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Thành thật và thẳng thắn

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Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

Last year Alain beat me fair and square.

‘ As far as we were concerned Tblisi had won the tie fair and square.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Figurative class: Metaphor (PIE-English corpus, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-31).

Common questions

What does “fair and square” mean?

Honestly and straightforwardly.

Is “fair and square” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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