/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Cross Man (A)
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Not straightforward; ungain; not honest.
“The storekeepers know who are their best customers, the square people or the cross ones.”—Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, chap. xvii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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