fair play

[fair play] {n.}

Equal and right action (to another person); justice.

* /The visiting team did not get fair play in the game./

* /The judges decided against Bob, but he said that he had gotten fair play./

* /Sally's sense of fair play made her a favorite with her classmates./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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