单词 | to keep fair with |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep fair with b. On good or friendly terms. Frequently in to keep fair with. Now rare (somewhat archaic in later use). ΚΠ c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2750 He..twynnes with þaim faire. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 196 Tap for tap, and so part faire . View more context for this quotation 1641 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 25 His Majestie..will certainly part fayre with this people. 1672 C. Lyttelton Let. 22 Feb. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 80 The Spaniard and wee shall still continue faire together. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 31 Fair they parted till the Morrows Dawn. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5332/1 To keep fair with the Persian Court. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. i. 18 They are neither quarrelsome, nor mischievous, nor warlike; being greatly afraid of those that are; and they keep fair with the Europeans from this motive. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xiii. 304 We must keep fair with him. 1866 M. Lemon Falkner Lyle I. ix. 243 We parted fair—well, good friends, I may say. 1920 T. N. Page Italy & World War viii. 104 He believed firmly in the Triple Alliance as the sheet-anchor of Italy's foreign policy; but desired at the same time to keep fair with England and France. < as lemmas |
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