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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 125. The noun phrase today

  • is a fair shake. Okay. Let's look at the note here . If someone gets a fair shake

  • or is given a fair shake , he or she is given a fair chance or fair treatment. So

  • they're not favoring somebody or giving somebody more of a chance than giving

  • you. Okay. Let's continue. Some think the origin may have derived from the shaking

  • of dice. You know, you have to shake the dice, before you actually let it go and

  • roll it. A fair shake would be a natural shake rather than if someone tried to

  • shake in a away ... maybe they're trying to look at the dice at the same time. We

  • kind of try to drop it so it's more likely to land the way they want it to

  • land in their favor. Or it could also imply if someone was trying to you know,

  • either have fixed dice or weighted dice. We know that's a way of cheating

  • with dice. So a fair shake would be you know, with normal dice. Dice that's not

  • fixed or not weighted. So that somebody could cheat. So we could say that could

  • be like a fair shake. Make sure nobody's trying to cheat you. Okay. Let's continue.

  • The earliest citing goes back to 1830 from the publication, " The Central

  • Watchtower and Farmers Journal. " Okay. All right, Let's continue. And we have

  • actually four examples here today. Here's the first one. He faces trial in that

  • country or if he faces trial in that country, he won't get a fair shake. They

  • will just set up a kangaroo court and find him guilty. Remember we covered that

  • one as a noun phrase before too. Kangaroo court is kind of a court that just plans

  • to find you guilty no matter what the evidence says. So that's what we say that.

  • So if he goes to that kind of a court, he's not going to get a fair shake. Okay.

  • Let's look at number two here. All of the candidates should get the same amount of

  • questions and speaking time in order to get a

  • fair shake. Yeah. Over the years I've watched a lot of political primaries and

  • sometimes the news network favor a few candidates and they tend to give them

  • more time or better questions or easier maybe sometimes we say a softball

  • question. You know where the other candidates it's a little tougher for

  • them or they get less questions, less speaking time. Obviously if that's the

  • case, they're not getting a fair shake. They tend to be favoring a few

  • candidates over some others. Okay. Good. Let's look at number three here. Online

  • Commerce has given more of a fair shake to small business owners. Yeah. So because

  • your presence online doesn't look like much of a difference. So at least in the

  • past or at least when the Internet commerce first started, it seems like you

  • know it was more of a level playing field for small business. Where you know

  • out there big business of course they got all the money, they can do all the

  • advertising they get old a big presence of the best stores the best locations

  • but online everybody was more equal. So they got more of a fair shake. Okay. Let's

  • look good number four here. If somebody might say it this way. Let us try out. You

  • know , maybe maybe somebody didn't even want them to try out. Give us a chance we

  • are only asking for a fair shake. It's just the way that you may hear it. Anyway,

  • I hope you got it . I hope its clear. I hope it was informative . Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

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