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fair suck of the sauce bottle en · INTJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/ (General-American)
• [-ˈbɑɾl] (General-American)
• /fɛː-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

An elaboration of fair go (used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason). Sauce bottle appears to refer to a bottle of cheap beer or another alcoholic beverage; see sauce (“(slang) alcohol, booze”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, colloquial, informal) Used to protest against unreasonableness, such as somebody taking more than their fair share.
   • Come on Aussie, fair suck of the sauce bottle, here's the opportunity to recognise Aboriginal cultural and economic excellence and put our money where our mouth is. Instead of mouthing platitudes about Aboriginal employment, we will buy food directly from the descendants of the people who developed an incredible array of health giving crops and managed them in perpetuity … until 1788; until the British insisted on the sheep and the spud. 2018 May 29, Bruce Pascoe, “Comment: Let’s Talk about Real Australian Food”, in Special Broadcasting Service, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2019:
   • Some idiots even blamed him [Sidney Kidman] for the drought—and the depression—because he owned so much country. Fair suck of the sauce bottle, I tell you. 1992, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King (Imprint Lives), Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN:
   • Mary Beecher, 19, and her sister coeds love to date Americans and Englishmen but have a hard time communicating. "They just don't understand our talk," she reported and promptly wrote them a "Brief Australian Dictionary." [...] "Fair suck of the sauce bottle" means "Let's be civilized about this;" [...] [1973 March 22, “Aussie talk is baffling”, in The Sun, volume 272, number 107, Baltimore, Md.: The A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6, column 1:
   • ‘Garn with ya. Fair suck of the sauce bottle’, countered Sid. ‘Look all ya gotta do is knock a little bit of the tube out and it won′t wink anymore. Get a yonnie and give it a little tap.’ 1986, [Bruce Pascoe], editor, Australian Short Stories, number 15, Fairfield, Vic.: Pascoe Pub., →OCLC, page 10:
   • I tried to calm him down. "Fair suck of the sauce bottle," I said. "Take it easy, mate. I was just admiring your cobber. Don't often see a man like him around." 1983, Alistair Skelton, Bill’s Break, Prahan, Vic.: Champion Books, →ISBN, page 198:

Synonyms

fair go · fair shake of the sauce bottle · fair crack of the whip · fair suck of the sav

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fair suck of the sauce bottle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/ (General-American)
• [-ˈbɑɾl] (General-American)
• /fɛː-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

An elaboration of fair go (used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason). Sauce bottle appears to refer to a bottle of cheap beer or another alcoholic beverage; see sauce (“(slang) alcohol, booze”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, colloquial, informal) A fair chance, a reasonable opportunity; a fair go.
   • [Barry] Humphries, as Hoot, the Jesus-freak, goes down under a knuckle sandwich, his mouth and detached teeth so reddened you can see he's had more than a fair suck of the sauce bottle. 1972, The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Consolidated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:
   • It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say. 2013 August 26, Oliver Milman, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson calls for free labour exchange between UK and Australia”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2019:
   • [S]ensing that the end of 'Britain' may be inevitable, a forgotten sentiment is occurring to the one people in this island who, says Alan Ford, never get a fair suck of the sauce bottle. 2003, Boris Johnson, The Essential Boris Johnson: Lend Me Your Ears, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 189:
   • Tex Morton's Goondiwindi Grey [...] A record that is as Australian as a "fair suck of the sauce bottle." 1978 January 26, “From the rack: Spinning a horoscope for a Zodiac lady [music review]”, in The Age (The Age Green Guide), Melbourne, Vic.: Fairfax Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 7:
   • Ensuring a fair suck of the sauce bottle: institutional considerations [section heading] Adherence to federalism principles or "getting prices right" or even "getting the rules of the game right" as discussed earlier is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the success of decentralized decision making. 2004 April, Anwar Shah, “Realigning the Authorizing Environment to a Focus on Societal Goals”, in Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies: Progress, Problems, and the Promise (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper; 3282), Washington, D.C.: World Bank, →OCLC, page 31:

Synonyms

fair suck of the sav · fair crack of the whip · fair shake of the sauce bottle · fair go · fair shake

Translations (1)

uk че́сний шанс (fair chance, reasonable opportunity)

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