Noun
fast and loose (uncountable)
(historical) A con game played with a chain, belt or string that is laid down to form two open loops. The mark places a finger or stick in one of the loops to try to secure the chain when it gets lifted, but the con artist is able to prevent this no matter which loop was chosen.
Synonyms: prick the garter, pitch the nob, pricking at the belt, strap game
Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes. John Heard
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
Even in the hours leading up to his death in a mysterious plane crash on a Scottish hillside in September 1942, he was playing fast and loose in the apartment of his latest popsy in London’s Grosvenor Square. Source: Internet
Rigg - whose club have been described by Maguire as "financially, the best-run in the Premier League" - believes some clubs have been playing "fast and loose" and the current situation could allow them to re-evaluate their business models. Source: Internet
Not so much because our human rights laws need changing, but because a good argument can be made that our existing global institutions, and especially the UN’s deliberative role, are playing fast and loose with their legitimacy and our integrity.” Source: Internet
That explanation plays pretty fast and loose with signs, but as long as you plug speeds in where velocities are called for, it gets the magnitude of the result right. Source: Internet