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"It's not cricket" is an English expression meaning that something is unfair. See, for instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/201
by kwhitefoot 8y ago
"It's not cricket" is an English expression meaning that something is unfair. See, for instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/2013/04/130404_todays_phrase_not_cricket.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/2....
Or was that the straightforward meaning you had in mind anyway?
- spacehome 8y agoThanks, that's helpful. I had never heard this phrase before. I don't think it's common in the US.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoUnderstandable since cricket itself is not very common in the US either. It is played though, and there is a national organization: https://www.usacricket.org/ https://www.usacricket.org/.