fair game

NOUN
  1. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
    everyone was fair game
    the target of a manhunt
    he fell prey to muggers
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How To Use fair game In A Sentence

  • Politicians were always considered fair game by cartoonists.
  • The young star's behavior made her fair game for the tabloid press.
  • The argument that third generation mobile phone technology is non-essential and, therefore, fair game for the Nimby brigade, is flawed.
  • Every malicious, dirty, low-down trick was fair game.
  • Why did you see vegans as fair game, when they are so wholly, completely, magnificently and inarguably in the right? Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything like that was fair game, and it was always fair game to tease the keepers and those people who had apple trees and things. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • Politicians were always considered fair game by cartoonists.
  • Anything that is palletized is fair game for us.
  • Many journalists consider the royal family fair game.
  • From now on, our leaders, our politicians, our statesmen will be fair game too.
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