fair shake

plural fair shakes

1. idiomaticReasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal.

   "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake."

   1980 April 14, David Aikman, “In Seattle: Up from Revolution”, in Time, retrieved 24 May 2017

   4 more examples

   Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, "We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake."

   1973 November 20, “Army Rejects Plea To Erase 2 Charges On Benedict Arnold”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2017

   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.

   2009 July 16, Christopher McGimpsey, “The absurd quest for a united Ireland”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 May 2017

   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.

   2015 May 11, Charlie Gillis, “Inside the daddy wars”, in Maclean's Magazine, Canada, retrieved 24 May 2017

   “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.

   2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: fair crack of the whip, fair go, fair shake of the sauce bottle, fair suck of the sav, fair suck of the sauce bottle