not cricket
UK old-fashioned or humorousIf behaviour is not cricket, it is not honest or moral:
It's simply not cricket to flirt with another man's wife.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- grain
- improper
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- that will never do! idiom
- unfit
- vulgar
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