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not cricket

UK old-fashioned or humorous

Definition

If behaviour is not cricket, it is not honest or moral: It's simply not cricket to flirt with another man's wife.Unsuitable and unacceptable
(Definition of not cricket from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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