hard-and-fast
Example Sentences
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"But a blanket hard-and-fast rule isn't helpful, because it doesn't really allow for the intricacies and the individualisation of what's really going on."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But he said that it’s not clear whether this is a hard-and-fast rule.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
That’s not because the travel industry has a hard-and-fast rule about when to buy flights, but because the loosely understood best practice of a one-to-three-month advance window for nonholiday travel hasn’t arrived yet.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
There are no hard-and-fast rules about when a place name or other traditional description attached to a product becomes generic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Unfortunately, there’s no hard-and-fast rule that tells you how to form the plural of every word that ends in o.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
