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| | # {{UK|colloquial|informal}} An [[equitable]] [[opportunity]] to achieve something; a [[fair go]]. | | # {{UK|colloquial|informal}} An [[equitable]] [[opportunity]] to achieve something; a [[fair go]]. |
| − | #* '''1982''', [[w:Catherine Cookson|Catherine Cookson]], ''The Whip'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=g1qWa5oEu2MC&q=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6NMT_2hJOaiiQKjn7WeDw&redir_esc=y page 3], | |
| − | #*: "No, no." The fat lady shook the small hand reassuringly, adding as sge began to walk on, "Just the bad hats. They′re very good justices here; folks get a '''fair crack of the whip'''." | |
| | #* '''1993''', William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) ''Talking About Psychiatry'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VWy_Hbap8NUC&pg=PA43&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AI1MT8njKebLmAWmir3eDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fair%20crack%20of%20the%20whip%22%20-intitle%3A%22fair%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 43], | | #* '''1993''', William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) ''Talking About Psychiatry'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VWy_Hbap8NUC&pg=PA43&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AI1MT8njKebLmAWmir3eDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fair%20crack%20of%20the%20whip%22%20-intitle%3A%22fair%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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. | | #*: 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. |
| | #* '''2001''', Terry Hodgson, ''The Plays of Tom Stoppard: For Stage, Radio, TV and Film'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=znQxsPPEGKoC&pg=PA86&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AI1MT8njKebLmAWmir3eDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fair%20crack%20of%20the%20whip%22%20-intitle%3A%22fair%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 86], | | #* '''2001''', Terry Hodgson, ''The Plays of Tom Stoppard: For Stage, Radio, TV and Film'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=znQxsPPEGKoC&pg=PA86&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AI1MT8njKebLmAWmir3eDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fair%20crack%20of%20the%20whip%22%20-intitle%3A%22fair%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 86], |
| | #*: Yet style for Stoppard is not, as he feels it was for Oscar Wilde, the means and the end: 'I′m not a writer who doesn′t care what things mean ... but despite myself I ''am'' a kind of writer who doesn′t give a '''fair crack of the whip''' to that meaning' (Delaney, p.99). | | #*: Yet style for Stoppard is not, as he feels it was for Oscar Wilde, the means and the end: 'I′m not a writer who doesn′t care what things mean ... but despite myself I ''am'' a kind of writer who doesn′t give a '''fair crack of the whip''' to that meaning' (Delaney, p.99). |
| | + | #* '''2010''', [[w:House of Lords|House of Lords]], ''The British Film and Television Industries: Decline Or Opportunity? 1st Report of Session 2009-10'', Volume II: Evidence, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VkNfk42qhVAC&pg=PA91&dq=%22fair+crack+of+the+whip%22+-intitle:%22fair%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lcRMT8PoA4vJmQWUrojbDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fair%20crack%20of%20the%20whip%22%20-intitle%3A%22fair%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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. |
