square shake
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Among them were measures to increase taxes, adjust ridiculously low rents, head the country toward a central bank, start a sensible land-reform program, and assure private foreign investors of a square shake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of an affair as one-sided as the Russian invasion of Finland, the Garden race looked like a square shake, particularly at Maki's favorite distance, three miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inmates say that they get a square shake in federal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joseph," he added, when his hair was dressed, "take away that towel, draw back the curtains, put those chairs square, shake the rug, and lay it quite straight.
From The Ball at Sceaux by Balzac, Honoré de
"That I admit," answered Michel, "and I understand it, although your v zero two and your v zero square shake about in my head like nails in a sack."
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
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