S1/E7 - How Cricket Has Influenced British Culture & Language
The British English Podcast
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To be cricket, often using the negative, it means to play fair. And if we use it in the negative,. it means you're not playing fair. This is a phrase that I can imagine like our parents may be using. But you don't hear it much nowadays. So there are other idioms coming along, which are more modern. But it's still interesting to hear these old ones, isn't it? Definitely. Yeah.
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