fair crack of the whip

Interjection

 * 1)  Fair go, fair suck of the sauce bottle; used as an appeal for reasonableness.

Noun

 * 1)  An equitable opportunity to achieve something; a fair go.
 * 2) * 1993, William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) Talking About Psychiatry, page 43,
 * I never thought the Department of Psychiatry had a fair crack of the whip during my time in Birmingham. I was promised facilities, a new unit for psychiatry, none of which came to pass.
 * 1) * 2010, House of Lords, The British Film and Television Industries: Decline Or Opportunity? 1st Report of Session 2009-10, Volume II: Evidence, page 91,
 * Lord Inglewood: Then you intimated that you felt that your members were not getting a fair crack of the whip. Is that right?
 * Mr McVay: I think that previously we do not think that we were getting a fair crack of the whip. I think we have every chance now to exploit our content.
 * Lord Inglewood: Then you intimated that you felt that your members were not getting a fair crack of the whip. Is that right?
 * Mr McVay: I think that previously we do not think that we were getting a fair crack of the whip. I think we have every chance now to exploit our content.