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Definition of Hard-and-fast
1. Adjective. (of rules) stringently enforced. "Hard-and-fast rules"
Definition of Hard-and-fast
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Strictly maintained (as of rules) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-and-fast
Literary usage of Hard-and-fast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"I have accorded very little place to the character of the metamorphosis, because
there is no hard and fast line between complete and incomplete ; but the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is impossible to draw a hard and fast line between functional and organic
disease, since the one passes gradually into the other, as is well seen in gout ..."
3. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1898)
"... when it was found that the " Sacramento " was hard and fast and sinking
gradually, with the seas breaking over her starboard quarter, two rafts were ..."
4. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1873)
"on Hard and Fast Lines, 18 rf Foreign, Import Returns, П did Hancock (Dr.)
Criminal and Judicial Statistics of Ireland, 10 n 10 b 7/ Hanover Church, ..."
5. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1860)
"ALL THE SHIPS AGROUND THE DELTA OP THE YANG-TSE CHANNEL- HUNTING THE KIANG-YIN
BLUFFS ASPECT OF THE RIVER BANKS HARD AND FAST SILVER ISLAND YANG-CHOW A ..."
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