Synonyms for hard-and-fast
hard-and-fast

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1. hard-and-fastadjective

   Synonyms:
   strict

2. hard-and-fastadjective

   Strictly maintained (as of rules)

   to stick to hard-and-fast rules

   Synonyms:
   strict

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1. hard-and-fast, strictadjective

   (of rules) stringently enforced

   "hard-and-fast rules"

   Synonyms:
   rigid, rigorous, nonindulgent, stern, exacting, strict

   Antonyms:
   variable

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1. Josh Romney:

   I want to go as hard and fast as I can in the House and then go home.

2. Rich Fuerstenberg:

   This could be symptomatic of a broader cultural shift, companies are moving away from hard and fast rules to whatever the employee and supervisor agree to is fine.

3. David Hone:

   They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small.

4. Donald Trump:

   It's something I'd have to think about, to be honest with you. I don't want to give a hard and fast answer to that, it bothers me greatly that they're doing the abortions. At the same time, women's health issues are, you know, very important to me.

5. Tenisha Tate-Austin Patrick Semansky/AP/FILE White:

   I think it’s systemic, implicit, explicit and structural, you have all these inflection points where making different decisions can lead to a very different result. The methodology is not so hard and fast that every appraiser is going to come up with the same value.