fair game
noun
: someone or something that can be chased, attacked, or criticized
Celebrities are fair game for the tabloids.
The tourists were fair game for the pickpockets.
Even her retirement savings were fair game for her creditors.
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Perry the Platypus is still moonlighting as a secret agent to defeat Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s schemes that don’t involve being a good dad to Vanessa (all other schemes are fair game).
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
So, without El Niño’s potential storm-suppressing influence, more storms are fair game.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
Items like alarm clocks and stereos in working condition are often fair game, but televisions and microwaves, for example, are not.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2025
And there’s the problem: Because there’s never been a second constitutional convention, no one knows if such a gathering’s activity can be confined to one or two subjects, or whether everything would become fair game.
—Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2025
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
So, without El Niño’s potential storm-suppressing influence, more storms are fair game.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
Items like alarm clocks and stereos in working condition are often fair game, but televisions and microwaves, for example, are not.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2025
And there’s the problem: Because there’s never been a second constitutional convention, no one knows if such a gathering’s activity can be confined to one or two subjects, or whether everything would become fair game.
—Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Fair game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair%20game. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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