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. Jason Chaffetz:

   I'm not going to be here forever, i would take a serious, serious look at running for governor. I want to go as hard and fast as I can in the House and then go home.

2. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz:

   I'm not going to be here forever. I would take a serious, serious look at running for governor, i want to go as hard and fast as I can in the House and then go home.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Doug Biesecker:

   It's a very complicated issue, does the sun have a role in our variable climate? Yes. Is the dominate role? No. Even the concept of the sun being responsible for Europe's mini ice age -- it's not hard and fast true.