square deal

the stated policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally promising fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups.

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“Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.
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Speculation raged that Duke agreed not to run as part of the deal, though it was never proven.
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He later accepted a plea deal that put him behind bars for 25 years.
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It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it is kind of a top priority.
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In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.
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They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!
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She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.
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In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.
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Bernard sat thinking for a long time; at first with a good deal of mortification—at last with a good deal of bitterness.
Confidence|Henry James

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square deal

A just, equitable arrangement or transaction, as in I know I'll get a square deal if I work with that supplier. This idiom uses square in the sense of “fair” or “honest,” a usage dating from the 1300s. [Late 1800s]

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