英语词汇“not cricket”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Chiefly colloquial. Cricket played in the correct manner or proper spirit; (hence more generally) honourable dealings between opponents or rivals in any sphere; fair play. Chiefly in negative contexts, denoting something contrary to traditional standards of fairness or rectitude, esp. in not cricket. Cf. to play cricket at Phrases.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > as it should be played

cricket1851

society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > action

fair play?a1500

square play or dealing1592

the square thing1592

fair dealing1609

to do justice to (a person or thing)1610

fair deal1837

fairation1847

fair do's1859

square deal1876

fair dinkum1881

cricket1900

society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > wrongly or unjustly [phrase] > unfair

not cricket1900

no fair1913

1823 A. Moysey Confederates II. vi. 125 It was all a trick, he settled, just as he dropped asleep—not the real, old, legitimate system of play—not cricket, properly so called; but all a deception.]

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 210 We will not say that any thing that hardest of hitters..does is not cricket, but certainly it's anything but play.

1867 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 23) 13 Do not ask the umpire unless you think the batsman is out; it is not cricket to keep asking the umpire questions.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 2/2 We should be very much surprised if the Duke really thought that to dissolve would be ‘cricket’.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 1/3 We believe that the feeling is very widespread that it would not be ‘cricket’ to get back to power again as the result of an appeal to the country.

1930 ‘S. S. Van Dine’ Scarab Murder Case 20 It didn't seem cricket to leave the poor devil there.

1955 Times 21 July 5/7 When one was called to the Bar one was a public menace but one learnt what was and was not cricket during the period of pupilage.

1996 J. T. Hospital Oyster (1997) 82 We don't talk about stuff like that, he says. It's not cricket.

单词	not cricket
释义	> as lemmas not cricket b. Chiefly colloquial. Cricket played in the correct manner or proper spirit; (hence more generally) honourable dealings between opponents or rivals in any sphere; fair play. Chiefly in negative contexts, denoting something contrary to traditional standards of fairness or rectitude, esp. in not cricket. Cf. to play cricket at Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > as it should be played cricket1851 society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > action fair play?a1500 square play or dealing1592 the square thing1592 fair dealing1609 to do justice to (a person or thing)1610 fair deal1837 fairation1847 fair do's1859 square deal1876 fair dinkum1881 cricket1900 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > wrongly or unjustly [phrase] > unfair not cricket1900 no fair1913 1823 A. Moysey Confederates II. vi. 125 It was all a trick, he settled, just as he dropped asleep—not the real, old, legitimate system of play—not cricket, properly so called; but all a deception.] 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 210 We will not say that any thing that hardest of hitters..does is not cricket, but certainly it's anything but play. 1867 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 23) 13 Do not ask the umpire unless you think the batsman is out; it is not cricket to keep asking the umpire questions. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 2/2 We should be very much surprised if the Duke really thought that to dissolve would be ‘cricket’. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 1/3 We believe that the feeling is very widespread that it would not be ‘cricket’ to get back to power again as the result of an appeal to the country. 1930 ‘S. S. Van Dine’ Scarab Murder Case 20 It didn't seem cricket to leave the poor devil there. 1955 Times 21 July 5/7 When one was called to the Bar one was a public menace but one learnt what was and was not cricket during the period of pupilage. 1996 J. T. Hospital Oyster (1997) 82 We don't talk about stuff like that, he says. It's not cricket. extracted from cricketn.³ < as lemmas
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