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fair game

noun

  1. a legitimate or likely object of attack, mockery, etc.:

    With his fat, round face, the politician was fair game for the cartoonists.



fair game

noun

  1. a legitimate object for ridicule or attack
  2. archaic.
    hunting quarry that may legitimately be pursued according to the rules of a particular sport
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fair game1

First recorded in 1795–1805
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Idioms and Phrases

A legitimate target for attack or ridicule. For example, On his talk show, authors are considered fair game . This expression alludes to hunting. [Early 1800s]
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Example Sentences

He’s made clear that isn’t the only consideration, but it’s notable he’s talking about it in those terms and agrees it’s fair game for him to keep an eye on who’s going to replace him.

If nations decide that satellites are fair game for military attacks, it will likely benefit whoever attacks first, even as it risks nuclear miscalculation below.

Customer reviews praise it for its fair games and instant deposits.

There’s no process that decides what AI-hiring tools are fair game… And anyone can bring any tool to market.

“Anything the president does that we believe to be illegal is fair game,” Miller told the Wall Street Journal.

Parodies, on the other hand, are fair game to be discussed and shared.

And as his stunned neighbors in Normandy might tell you, even allegedly nice guys are fair game.

As long as the reporter does not misrepresent himself and does not attempt to conceal a recording device, the event is fair game.

Wardrobe, mannerisms, and intonation are fair game, and Chu certainly has his detractors there.

“Any of her teen children with a license were fair game to recruit as well,” her son, Thomas, would say in his eulogy.

Radiation tabs protected the UN troops, but if a man lost his tab he was fair game for the claws, no matter what his uniform.

Yet the status of aunt is always fair game to the humourist; and especially so when she is the aunt of somebody else.

The crows regard them as fair game, hence their nest-building season is a time of sturm und drang.

This was fair game enough, though to-day it would probably have been passed over in silence.

Good-looking enough in a fashion, and plays a fair game, but a stiff, reserved kind of beggar.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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