square deal
noun
a fair and honest arrangement or transaction.
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Square Deal
Square Dealnounthe 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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U.S. History.
square deal
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Etymology
Origin of square deal
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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“Haven’t I given you a square deal, Miss Goldman?”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
“I will apply the law faithfully and fearlessly and without regard to persons. … Any law is going to get a fair and square deal with me.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
“Anyone, any law, is going to get a fair and square deal with me,” Gorsuch said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
He waged war against the powerful business trusts in pursuit of a "square deal" for average Americans, but his party turned away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
Shake!” and I gripped his grimy old fist gladly, knowing it was jonnick and ‘a square deal.’
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
Square Deal was your winner in the second straight race he crossed the line first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
What they want to see, he said, is “like a combination of Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, the Square Deal and the New Deal.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2018
“Mankind is hardwired to work,” as the Conservative MP Nick Boles puts it in a new book, Square Deal.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
His call, in his book Square Deal, echoes those being made by Labour ahead of 22 November's Budget.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2017
We will establish a branch of the Square Deal Club in every town and city.
From The Landloper by Day, Holman
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