| 词组 | It's not cricket! |
| 释义 | Idiom It's not cricket!It's/That's (just) not cricket! British & Australian, humorous something that you say when you think something someone has said or done is not right or not fair.You can't make me do the washing up after I did all the cooking - it's just not cricket! it's not cricketIt isn't fair, sportsmanlike, or legitimate. I know you want to avoid confrontation, but it's not cricket to break up with someone by text message. I don't see why you think it's not cricket—everyone else does it all the time. It's not cricket.and It's not kosher.It's not done.; It's not acceptable. You can't do that! It's not cricket! not cricketUnfair, 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] not cricketcontrary to traditional standards of fairness or rectitude. British informalThe game of cricket, with its traditional regard for courtesy and fair play, has been a metaphor for these qualities since at least the mid 19th century. it’s (just) not ˈcricket(old-fashioned, British English, informal) it is not a fair or an honourable action or way of behavingnot cricket mod. unfair; illegitimate; unorthodox. (See affirmative examples at cricket.) What do you mean it’s not cricket? You do it. not cricket, it's/that'sUnsportsmanlike, unfair, dishonorable. Eric Partridge traced this term to 1867 but believed it was not widely used until the early twentieth century. Among the early references in print is Stanley Houghton’s 1914 play, The Partners, “. . . but it is not playing the game. In other words, Cynthia, it is not cricket.” Although cricket is a sport popular exclusively in Great Britain and most of its former colonies, the term crossed the Atlantic and became a cliché in the United States as well. |
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