Meaning of fair crack of the whip | Babel Free

Definitions

An equitable opportunity to achieve something.

UK, colloquial, informal

Examples

“We believe it is our duty to help these people, because we don't think they are getting a fair crack of the whip.”

“1993, William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) Talking About Psychiatry, page 43, I never thought the Department of Psychiatry had a fair crack of the whip during my time in Birmingham. I was promised facilities, a new unit for psychiatry, none of which came to pass.”

“Yet style for Stoppard is not, as he feels it was for Oscar Wilde, the means and the end: ‘I′m not a writer who doesn′t care what things mean ... but despite myself I am a kind of writer who doesn′t give a fair crack of the whip to that meaning’ (Delaney, p.99).”

“2010, House of Lords, The British Film and Television Industries: Decline Or Opportunity? 1st Report of Session 2009-10, Volume II: Evidence, page 91, Lord Inglewood: Then you intimated that you felt that your members were not getting a fair crack of the whip. Is that right? Mr McVay: I think that previously we do not think that we were getting a fair crack of the whip. I think we have every chance now to exploit our content.”

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