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View synonyms for fair shake

fair shake

noun

, Informal.
  1. an equitable opportunity or treatment:

    The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of fair shake1

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30
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Example Sentences

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

But the sisters, it seems, were dead wrong to think they might get a fair shake under Francis.

Gideon wrote to the Supreme Court, arguing that his inability to obtain counsel effectively denied him a fair shake at trial.

You have to look at the rest of the data – and particularly, the household survey – for a fair shake.

Gentlemen, unless you get me to Washington, you can't get a fair shake out of me.

A fair shake, do you think, or is somebody trying to string you?

The fact was that Si and his companions hardly had a fair shake in this respect, and entered the field at a decided disadvantage.

She deserves a fair shake and, by the big dipper, she's goin' to have it!

Your father was a great man, and he rates a fair shake in the write-ups.

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