Meaning of fair shake | Babel Free

Definitions

Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

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