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not cricket
Idioms and Phrases
Unfair, unsportsmanlike, as in It's not cricket to let him go without notice . This term, in which the sport of cricket is equated with upright behavior, survives in America despite the relative unfamiliarity of the sport there. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
It is not cricket or politics that triggers the most ardent debate in Antigua and Barbuda.
I'm very sporty like James, like Alf Wight, but not cricket.
Not cricket: The tale of a British scam artist who left a trail of broken lives in his wake is retold in the new true-crime docuseries “The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman.”
At the time, most houses kept their storefronts partially covered with drab fabric and speaking to the media was not cricket.
It’s not cricket as we know it Jim.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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