Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Square

To put oneself in the attitude of boxing, to quarrel. (Welsh, cwer' —i.e. cweryl, cwerylu, to quarrel.)

Are you such fools
To square for this?

Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, ii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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