square shake

American  

noun

1. square deal.

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square shake

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

"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 Jules Verne

After a good square shake and giving a hasty synopsis of our experiences during the time we had been separated, George asked if I was going into the scouting field again.

From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by William F. Drannan