Phrases & SayingsPolitics and public life
fair suck of the sauce bottle
Also: fair suck of the sav
An appeal for fairness, reasonableness or restraint.
In a sentence
Fair suck of the sauce bottle—we only just arrived.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre documents the expression as an Australian extension of the fair-go/fair-crack family, with late twentieth-century evidence.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia-wide