fair shake
Use Fair shake in a sentencefair shake
noun Informal.
an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
Origin:
1820–30, Americanism
1820–30, Americanism
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Fair shake
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
It's an approach that asks everyone to pay their fair share and makes sure everyone gets a fair shake.
We've got a lot to do to make sure that everyone in this country gets a fair shake and a fair shot and a chance to get ahead.
All they're asking for is a chance, and a fair shake.
The inflammatory ills of loneliness, an enzymatic explanation for stuttering and the alchemists who deserve a fair shake.
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