fair-and-square

1. 1.

   just and honest

   Similarfair

Questions about fair-and-square

What does fair-and-square mean?

fair-and-square means "just and honest".

How many syllables are in fair-and-square?

fair-and-square has 4 syllables: fa-i-r-and--square. The stress falls on "i".

Is fair-and-square a common word?

fair-and-square is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.