(it is) not cricket!

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• not cricket — (informal) Not fair and sporting • • • Main Entry: ↑cricket * * * not cricket british informal old fashioned phrase not fair or socially correct Thesaurus: unfairsynonym …   Useful english dictionary

• not cricket — (UK) If something is not cricket, it is unfair …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• not cricket — ► not cricket Brit. informal not fair or honourable. Main Entry: ↑cricket …   English terms dictionary

• not cricket Brit. — not cricket Brit. informal contrary to traditional standards of fairness or rectitude. → cricket …   English new terms dictionary

• not cricket — mod. unfair; illegitimate; unorthodox. (See affirmative examples at cricket.) □ You can’t do that! It’s not cricket! □ What do you mean it’s not cricket? You do it …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• not cricket — • an old English saying. If something is not cricket it is not correct protocol as understood by decent people and certain lines have been crossed. Only really used in a tongue in cheek manner nowadays …   Londonisms dictionary

• not cricket — Phrs. Unacceptable or unfair behaviour. E.g. I mean, it s just not cricket is it? Knowing that a meal contained beef fat and not telling a vegetarian until after they d eaten it. Informal …   English slang and colloquialisms

• not cricket — (UK)    If something is not cricket, it is unfair.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• Not cricket —   (UK)   If something is not cricket, it is unfair …   Dictionary of English idioms

• not cricket —  Not fair …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• not cricket — Synonyms and related words: Bohemian, beat, below the belt, breakaway, far out, foul, free and easy, fringy, heretical, heterodox, hippie, informal, kinky, maverick, not done, not fair, not kosher, offbeat, original, unconventional, unfair,… …   Moby Thesaurus