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Fair Game
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What does Fair Game mean?
noun
- Actions permissible by the rules.
- A goal or an object that may legitimately be sought.
- An acceptable subject or target for criticism, scrutiny, mockery, or attack.
More meanings (1)
noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fair, game.: a game that is fair, that does not involve cheating, etc.
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To her, a neighbour is fair game, to be eaten without scruple when one has might on one's side.
A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.
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Anything that we put up, from a fox to a coyote or a prong-buck, was fair game, and was instantly followed at full speed.
There is in our country a class of miscreants who think a flying Pigeon is fair game, because it is probably far from home, or they shoot him because it is hard to fix the crime.
Isaac, like the enriched traveller of Juvenal’s tenth satire, had ever the fear of robbery before his eyes, conscious that he would be alike accounted fair game by the marauding Norman noble, and by the Saxon outlaw.