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
Inmates say that they get a square shake in federal.
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
"Of course it won't; but if it wasn't that Jip's likely to be sent to jail for a good many years I wouldn't bother him, 'cause it don't seem the square shake for me to keep runnin' there whenever things turn wrong."
From Project Gutenberg
It ain’t a square shake by a sight.
From Project Gutenberg
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