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fast and loose
Idioms and Phrases
see play fast and loose .Example Sentences
Fast-and-loose, a cheating game sometimes played at fairs by gipsies, and also called 'prick the garter'.
You cannot be permitted to play fast-and-loose with a gentleman of M. le Marquis' quality!
Three times during this fast-and-loose interval was the fly changed.
Why should he try to maintain a fast-and-loose relation with Barbara?
He has been at his old game of fast-and-loose with me; but as I never trusted him, I am not deceived.
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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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