fair's fair

English

Alternative forms

• fair is fair

Phrase

fair's fair

1. An expression used when asking for fair or just treatment, or when asserting that a situation is fair.
   • 2008, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life as We Knew it‎^[1], Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN:

     "Okay," I said. "If we take turns with the dishes. I'm not going to do them all the time."
     "Fair's fair," Matt said. "We rotate the dishes, and Jon and I do our own laundry."

Translations

fair is fair

• French: donnant donnant (fr)
• Italian: ciò che è giusto è giusto
• Spanish: lo justo es (lo) justo, hay que ser justos

References

• “fair”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “fair’s fair”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.