play fair

[play fair] {v. phr.}

To do what is right to others; act in a fair and truthful way.

* /The boys like the principal because he always plays fair./

* /Mary would not date any other boys while Jim, her favorite boyfriend, was away; she said that would not be playing fair./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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