| 单词 | square play or dealing |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquare play or dealing a. In the phrases square play or dealing, the square thing. square deal: see square deal at deal n.2 4c(b). ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > action fair play?a1500 square play or dealing1592 the square thing1592 fair dealing1609 to do justice to (a person or thing)1610 fair deal1837 fairation1847 fair do's1859 square deal1876 fair dinkum1881 cricket1900 (a) (b)a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 115 Theis come as neere unto them as possibly with square dealing they can.1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 39 Would there then be kept that square-dealing in such a monstrous den of Thieves?1884 Harper's Mag. June 56/2 Reputation for integrity and square dealing.(c)c1860 H. E. P. Spofford in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) IV. 25/1 He had come to question..whether it was just the square thing to..shut her up all by herself.1890 Cent. Mag. Feb. 527/1 You know I've tried to do the square thing by you.1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching To Rdr. sig. A4 For feare of trouble I was fain to try my good hap at square play. 1604 W. Terilo Fr. Bacon's Proph. 214 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) IV. 276 And faire square plaie with yea and naie, Who lost the game would quickly paie. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. 6 Why, don't you know..that telling truth is a quality as prejudicial to a man that wou'd thrive in the World, as square Play to a Cheat? 1708 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper July Venturing my Money in any sort of Traffick, is much the same, as at Square Play. < as lemmas |
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