Goodwill Games
noun
An international sports competition, usually held at four-yearly intervals in different countries and venues; frequently attributive, as Goodwill Games team, Goodwill Games event, etc.
- A trademark in the United States.The Goodwill Games were founded in response to international political tensions surrounding the Olympic Games in the early 1980s, and first took place in Moscow, Russia in 1986; the final Goodwill Games took place 2001..
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
- the jig is up
- the joker in the pack
- the Journals
- the jury is out
- thekedar
- the Kimberleys
- the King
- the Kirk
- the Kirk of Scotland
- the knives are out (for someone)
- the Kop
- the Kremlin
- the Kurils
- the ladies
- the Lakes
- the Lamb of God (also the Lamb)
- the land of Nod
- the land of the free
- the last minute
- the last (or final) straw
- the last straw
- the last word
- the laugh is on me (or you, him, etc.)
- the Law
- (the law of) diminishing returns