fair's fair

English

Alternative forms

fair is fair

Phrase

fair 's fair

An expression used when asking for fair or just treatment, or when asserting that a situation is fair.
- 2008, "Life as We Knew it" by Susan Beth Pfeffer, 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 the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“fair's fair”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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