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单词 anybody's game
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anybody's game (also race, match)
P2. anybody's game (also race, match) and variants: a contest which either side or any competitor could win; an evenly balanced contest. Also figurative. Cf. anyone's game (also match, race) at anyone pron. Phrases 3.
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1826 Sporting Mag. Mar. 348/2 For the first mile there was little advantage on either side, and it was anybody's race.
1853 F. Gale Public School Matches 58 Sixty-nine runs and six wickets down; anybody's match, by jingo!
1865 J. Pycroft Cricketana vii. 152 Last year's match had been left unfinished, just in that interesting state in which it is called ‘anybody's game’.
1898 Forum Jan. 576 In Greater New York, it was what is called ‘anybody's race’, till close upon the day of election.
1903 Triangle (N.Y. Univ.) 27 Oct. 43/1 Until the last whistle blew the game was anybody's.
1931 Boys' Life Aug. 47/3 Scotty..drives his ball into the very same bunker with Dave. ‘Ho! Ho!’ laughs the crowd. ‘It's anybody's match yet.’
1997 N.Y. Times 25 July c22/5 ‘With 50 yards to go,’ Lukas said, ‘it was anybody's race.’
2011 Western Mail (Nexis) 5 Dec. (Sport) 2 Wales fought valiantly and ensured it was anybody's game at the start of the second [half] with Gatland's men leading 6-3.
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