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Definition of fair game in English: fair gamenounfɛː ˈɡeɪmfɛ(ə)r ɡeɪm mass nounA person or thing that is considered a reasonable target for criticism, exploitation, or attack. when it came to practical jokes, he regarded anybody as fair game Example sentencesExamples - I am aware that my job as an art critic makes me fair game - and I would not do it if I minded.
- After that it seemed Gina's methods were fair game and the barrage of criticism didn't stop.
- All subjects were fair game from gossip to sports, from crime to society balls.
- They became fair game for everybody to criticise at school.
- One minute we are presented as the pride of the nation, the next we're all fair game for criticism again.
- You undermine the office if you do that, it really means that it's fair game for anybody to do it.
- We informed him that as a politically active person, he was putting himself out in the public eye and was fair game for the cameras.
- You know, let me say it is fair game to point out that he had a troubled past.
- The state president, parliament and the judiciary are also regarded as fair game.
- As the law now stands, poles of most descriptions are fair game for posterers, but other surfaces are illegal.
Definition of fair game in US English: fair gamenounfɛ(ə)r ɡeɪm A person or thing that is considered a reasonable target for criticism, exploitation, or attack. when it came to practical jokes, he regarded anybody as fair game Example sentencesExamples - I am aware that my job as an art critic makes me fair game - and I would not do it if I minded.
- One minute we are presented as the pride of the nation, the next we're all fair game for criticism again.
- You undermine the office if you do that, it really means that it's fair game for anybody to do it.
- The state president, parliament and the judiciary are also regarded as fair game.
- All subjects were fair game from gossip to sports, from crime to society balls.
- After that it seemed Gina's methods were fair game and the barrage of criticism didn't stop.
- We informed him that as a politically active person, he was putting himself out in the public eye and was fair game for the cameras.
- You know, let me say it is fair game to point out that he had a troubled past.
- They became fair game for everybody to criticise at school.
- As the law now stands, poles of most descriptions are fair game for posterers, but other surfaces are illegal.
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