Definition
Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal.
In Context
- "Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, "We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake.""
- ""America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake.""
- "The average citizen in the republic wants to go to bed at night and feel that Catholics in Northern Ireland are receiving a fair shake."
- "A vast network of fathers’ groups, labour lawyers, bloggers and social advocates rallied to his cause, forcing a national conversation about whether caregiving fathers were getting a fair shake."
- "“You feel like you’re the underdog and you don’t get a fair shake, so you look for people that are going to shake it up,” she said of the local support for Mr. Trump’s dispute of the election results."
Also Said As
- fair crack of the whip
- fair go
- fair shake of the sauce bottle
- fair suck of the sav
- fair suck of the sauce bottle