hard-and-fast
- s (of rules) stringently enforced
hard-and-fast rules
- Campaigning in New York, he told reporters that his figure of a $1,000 income supplement for all Americans was not a hard-and-fast proposal but only "one possibility.
- Having a retraining program set up can help qualify a state for its slice of the $7 billionbut its not a hard-and-fast pre-condition.
- By the 1950s, as the middle class expanded, the custom had calcified into a hard-and-fast rule.