square shake
Americannoun
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Inmates say that they get a square shake in federal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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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 Drannan, William F.
It ain’t a square shake by a sight.
From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell
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