a fair crack of the whip
UK US a fair shakean equal chance to do something:
It's only right that all the candidates should be given a fair crack of the whip.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Justice and fairness
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- cleanly
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fairness
- fear
- law
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
- without fear or favour idiom
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