"fair crack of the whip" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 July 19, john smith, “Dumb Referee”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet)",
          "text": "Like you mean the non interference of the officials with the knockon from Soward and not called and the knockon from Chase which eventuated in a try to the Dragons not called, fair crack of the whip mate, see both sides of the coin, not the one you want to see.",
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          "text": "‘Fair crack of the whip, mate. We′ve had bacon and eggs for a week.’ He coughed noisily. ‘And you expect a man to jump out of bed for bacon and bloody eggs.’",
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          "ref": "1927 March 7, “Mr. J. H. Thomas And Trade Unions”, in The Times, London, England, page 16",
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          "text": "1993, William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) Talking About Psychiatry, page 43,\nI 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."
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          "text": "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).",
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          "text": "2010, House of Lords, The British Film and Television Industries: Decline Or Opportunity? 1st Report of Session 2009-10, Volume II: Evidence, page 91,\nLord Inglewood: Then you intimated that you felt that your members were not getting a fair crack of the whip. Is that right?\nMr 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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