Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fair suck of the sauce bottle

/ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: fair suck of the sauce bot-tle
IPA: /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/

43

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

2

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fair chance, a reasonable opportunity; a fair go.

Australian usage; Colloquial; Informal

intj

Used to protest against unreasonableness, such as somebody taking more than their fair share.

Australian usage; Colloquial; Informal

Example Sentences

"[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."
"Tex Morton's Goondiwindi Grey [...] A record that is as Australian as a "fair suck of the sauce bottle.""
"[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."
"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."
"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."
"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;" [...]"

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”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/
British English: /ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/

Usage

Synonyms

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

Questions

How do you pronounce fair suck of the sauce bottle?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/.
What does fair suck of the sauce bottle mean?: A fair chance, a reasonable opportunity; a fair go.
Where does fair suck of the sauce bottle come from?: 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”).

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