Meaning of fair suck of the sauce bottle | Babel Free

Definitions

A fair chance, a reasonable opportunity; a fair go.

Australia, colloquial, informal

Examples

“[Barry] Humphries, as Hoot, the Jesus-freak, goes down under a knuckle sandwich, his mouth and detached teeth so reddened you can see he's had more than a fair suck of the sauce bottle.”

“Tex Morton's Goondiwindi Grey [...] A record that is as Australian as a "fair suck of the sauce bottle."”

“[S]ensing that the end of 'Britain' may be inevitable, a forgotten sentiment is occurring to the one people in this island who, says Alan Ford, never get a fair suck of the sauce bottle.”

“Ensuring a fair suck of the sauce bottle: institutional considerations [section heading] Adherence to federalism principles or "getting prices right" or even "getting the rules of the game right" as discussed earlier is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the success of decentralized decision making.”

“It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say.”

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