get someone a fair shake
Meaning: To give someone or something a chance to prove itself.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Daily Life
More idioms — Daily Life
- fair to middling — Average; neither good nor bad.
- fall by the wayside — To drop out of the situation.
- fall for something — To be deceived or believe an unlikely story.
- fall for someone — To be in love with a person.
- fall off the wagon — To lose control of oneself and engage in a compulsive behavior.
- fall on deaf ears — To be heard but ignored, or to be heard but to have no effect.
More English idioms
- feather one's nest — To build up one's riches, usually quietly and perhaps by some unethical method (sentence…
- far cry from something — Much less than what was expected or anticipated.
- feel something in one's bones — To sense something without being able to see, hear or feel it; to have a premonition.
- feel the pinch — To have less money than one used to have, and less than one feels is necessary.
- feather in one's cap — An exceptional achievement.
- fill the bill — To suit or satisfy a need.
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