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Encyclopedia Britannica



FAST AND LOOSE

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 192 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FAST AND LOOSE , a
cheating
 
game
  played at fairs by sharpers. A strap, usually in the form of a
belt
 , is rolled or doubled up with a
loop
  in the centre, and laid edgewise on a table. The swindler then bets that the
loop
  cannot be caught with a stick or skewer as he unrolls the
belt
 . As this looks to be easy to do the bet is often taken, but the sharper unrolls the belt in such a manner as to make the catching of the loop practically impossible. Centuries ago it was much practised by
gipsies
 , a circumstance alluded to by Shakespeare in
Anthony
  and
Cleopatra
  (iv. 12) :
" Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguiled me to the very
heart
  of loss."
From this
game
  is taken the colloquial expression " to
play
  fast and loose." At the present day it is called " prick the garter " or " prick the loop."


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