"fair shake" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973 November 20, “Army Rejects Plea To Erase 2 Charges On Benedict Arnold”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-05-24",
          "text": "Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, \"We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake.\"",
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          "ref": "1980 April 14, David Aikman, “In Seattle: Up from Revolution”, in Time, retrieved 2017-05-24",
          "text": "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake.",
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          "ref": "2009 July 16, Christopher McGimpsey, “The absurd quest for a united Ireland”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2017-05-24",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2015 May 11, Charlie Gillis, “Inside the daddy wars”, in Maclean's Magazine, Canada, retrieved 2017-05-24",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "“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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        "Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal."
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        "(idiomatic) Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal."
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        {
          "word": "fair crack of the whip"
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        {
          "word": "fair go"
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        {
          "word": "fair shake of the sauce bottle"
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          "word": "fair suck of the sav"
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          "word": "fair suck of the sauce bottle"
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