Fair and square

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IX. Get yourself familiar with the following idioms. Read them in context and try to find out what they mean and what equivalent(s) they may have in your language.

VIII. Provide definitions for the following phrasal verbs and illustrate them in the sentences of your own.

VII. Explain in your own words and illustrate in the sentences of your own.

V. Scour the text for adjectives and nouns which are used to describe personal characteristics. Divide them into two columns in terms of virtues and vices. Provide them with as many synonyms as possible.

VI. Cite in context and use in the sentences of your own:

§ to beat a record

§ to read aloud

§ to give secrets away

§ windows rattled in the january gales

§ in the first place

§ to wear out flashlights

§ to give smb. credit for smth.

§ a boy wizard

§ safety-proofing

§ slim chances

§ glamorous virtue

§ dyslexic kids

§ banished from book-shelves

§ to endure as classics

§ to fade as fads

§ to dismiss a book

§ to sugarcoat feelings

§ a sophisticated psyche

§ her tone can also grow Grimm

§ a look of a nerd

Run out, keep up, stand up to, wear out, lay out, pick on

1. That wouldn't be right. No, sir, it just wouldn't be fair and square. (E. Caldwell, ‘Jackpot', ‘Kneel to the Rising Sun')

2. Well, if it's working all right to suit you, then you ought to pay me what you owe me for fixing it for you, Clyde. That's fair and square. We had a bargain about that, anyway. (E. Caldwell, ‘Close to Home', ch. 17)

3. ...I always give the good Lord His due. Him and me has always been fair and square with each other. (E. Caldwell, ‘Tobacco Road', ch. II)