fair shake
an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
Origin of fair shake
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How to use fair shake in a sentence
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
But the sisters, it seems, were dead wrong to think they might get a fair shake under Francis.
No More Mr. Nice Pope: Vatican Tightens Its Grip on Radical Nuns | Barbie Latza Nadeau | May 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGideon wrote to the Supreme Court, arguing that his inability to obtain counsel effectively denied him a fair shake at trial.
Fifty Years Later, Right to Lawyer Remains ‘Unfunded Mandate’ | Chris Opfer | March 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou have to look at the rest of the data – and particularly, the household survey – for a fair shake.
Gentlemen, unless you get me to Washington, you can't get a fair shake out of me.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
A fair shake, do you think, or is somebody trying to string you?
Motor Matt's Race | Stanley R. MatthewsThe fact was that Si and his companions hardly had a fair shake in this respect, and entered the field at a decided disadvantage.
Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) | John McElroyShe deserves a fair shake and, by the big dipper, she's goin' to have it!
Cy Whittaker's Place | Joseph C. LincolnYour father was a great man, and he rates a fair shake in the write-ups.
Bear Trap | Alan Edward Nourse
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