Brewer'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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