Idiom
fair share
Meaning
A significant amount, often implied to be excessive or inordinate; a great deal of something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I have done my fair share of work today.”
“After living in this city for twenty years, I have seen my fair share of bad weather.”
“The seasoned detective had encountered his fair share of complex cases, yet this particular mystery challenged even his extensive experience.”
Examples
simple
“I have done my fair share of work today.”
contextual
“After living in this city for twenty years, I have seen my fair share of bad weather.”
complex
“The seasoned detective had encountered his fair share of complex cases, yet this particular mystery challenged even his extensive experience.”
Origin
First attested in the mid-1600s, the phrase is a compound of the adjective fair and the noun share. It entered the language as a standard pairing during the seventeenth century.
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