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The phrase "a fair crack of" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to express the idea of giving someone a fair chance or opportunity to succeed. Example: "Everyone deserves a fair crack of the whip when it comes to job promotions."
Idiom
Fair crack of the whip.
(UK) If everybody has a fair crack of the whip, they all have equal opportunities to do something.
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Most public figures, not excepting Corbyn, get a fair crack of the whip somewhere.
"I didn't get a fair crack of the whip," claimed Huddlestone.
It's only quotas that will give British films and distributors a fair crack of the whip.
I'm going to get a fair crack of the whip here.
She deserves a fair crack of the whip, though, a chance to turn things round.
With the same promise, too: everyone gets a fair crack of the whip.
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Using punk attitude as a segue to talk about blonde hair, Debbie Harry had a fair crack at stripping it of its impotence and ridicule.
There is an element of ill-discipline but I believe we are not getting a fair crack and I was astounded by the award of the last penalty.
God alone knows how this Ryder Cup is going to end, it's a textbook definition of ebb, and also a fair crack at the word flow.
Will onshore wind get a fair crack?
Growing wealth inequality, they said, meant that few in America had a fair crack at life.
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