Question

Play Fast and Loose to do whatever pleases you without caring about what will happen to others; to be undependable and careless; to act irresponsibly

Accepted Answer

You told Linda you'd help her, but then you didn't show up. You shouldn't play fast and loose with your friends. This saying might have come from a 14th-century game in which tricksters cheated people at country fairs by challenging them to perform impossible tricks and then taking their money when they couldn't. The game involved loops in a piece of string or folds in a belt. In the late 1500s William Shakespeare used this phrase in some of his plays. People who "play fast and loose" promise to do one thing and then do another.

Idiom	Play Fast and Loose
Example	You told Linda you'd help her, but then you didn't show up. You shouldn't play fast and loose with your friends.
Meaning	to do whatever pleases you without caring about what will happen to others; to be undependable and careless; to act irresponsibly
Origin	This saying might have come from a 14th-century game in which tricksters cheated people at country fairs by challenging them to perform impossible tricks and then taking their money when they couldn't. The game involved loops in a piece of string or folds in a belt. In the late 1500s William Shakespeare used this phrase in some of his plays. People who "play fast and loose" promise to do one thing and then do another.

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