Brewer's: Cross Man

(A). 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.

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