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Definition: FAST AND LOOSE |
FAST AND LOOSE1. See under Fast . |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fast and Loose (To play). To run with the hare and hold with the hounds; to blow both hot and cold; to say one thing and do another. The allusion is to a cheating game practised at fairs. A belt is folded, and the player is asked to prick it with a skewer, so as to pin it fast to the table; having so done, the adversary takes the two ends, and looses it or draws it away, showing that it has not been pierced at all. He forced his neck into a noose, To show his play at fast and loose; And when he chanced t'escape, mistook, For art and subtlety, his luck." Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caprice | Verb: be capricious; Adjective: have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque. |
Falsehood | Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose. |
Irresolution | Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose. |
Vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate; (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold; (caprice). | |
Reasoning, | Cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on. |
Tergiversation | Trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FAST AND LOOSE |
| English words defined with "FAST AND LOOSE": Loose pulley. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FAST AND LOOSE": Prick the Garter. (references) |
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Screenplays | Fast and loose. (The Hustler; writing credit: Sidney Carroll; Robert Rossen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fast and Loose (1953) | |
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Expressions using "FAST AND LOOSE": Fast and loose pulleys ♦ play fast and loose ♦ play fast and loose with smb. ♦ play fast and loose with the facts. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "FAST AND LOOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تسرع (haste, hastiness, play fast and loose, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, rough and ready, run, scurry, slapdash), تصرف بإستهتار (play fast and loose), بخداع (craftily, play fast and loose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agir d'une manière irresponsable (play fast and loose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schindluder treiben mit (to play fast and loose with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem vall színt (to hedge, to play fast and loose), lelkiismeretlenül cselekszik (to play fast and loose), bolondít vkit (to lead sy up the garden path, to play fast and loose with sy, to send sy up the garden path), állhatatlan vkivel szemben (to play fast and loose with sy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astfay anday ooselay ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, tricksy, troublesome, trustless, truthless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy, wonky), непостоянный (casual, changeable, changeful, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, unabiding, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, wanton), изменчивый (changeable, fickle, inequable, mobile, mutable, protean, streaky, vagrant, variable, wayward). (various references) conducirse con ligereza (play fast and loose). (various references) vara falsk mot ngn (play fast and loose with smb.), lura ngn (play fast and loose with smb., pull a fast one). (various references) iki yüzlü davranmak (dissemble, play fast and loose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-l-n-o-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: loadstones. | |
-3 letters: aloofness, loadstone. | |
-4 letters: daftness, eftsoons, festoons, flatness, foodless, footless, odonates, sandlots, seafoods, sealants, seasonal, solonets, tenfolds, toadless. | |
-5 letters: aftosas, aldoses, anlases, ansated, atlases, daltons, dentals, desalts, donates, eftsoon, enfolds, etalons, falsest, fantods, fastens, fatless, fatness, fatsoes, festoon, floated, flossed, folates, fondest, fondles, footled, footles, fossate, lanated, lassoed, loosens, loosest, lotoses, noodles, odonate. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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