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 Fast and Loose (To play).Fasting. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fasti.
 
Working days; when, in Rome, the law’-courts were open. Holy days (dies non), when the law-courts were not open, were, by the Romans, called ne-fasti.   1
 


 Fast and Loose (To play).Fasting. 

 
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