Achilles heel at a low ebb idiom be only flesh and blood idiom be sb's poodle idiom chink in sb's armour idiom house of cards idiom human impotence impotent indefensible sitting target soft target submissive submissively submissiveness watery wetness wimpy wonky wuss See more results ». Anyone running for the presidency is fair game.
Examples of fair game. Applying the biased criterion to a fair game. From the Cambridge English Corpus. In general, the fortunes and the conduct of royal persons and their ministers was fair game for gossip. Any political or economic structure that exceeds and seems to erode the power and independence of nation-states appears fair game for the "empire" label.
Domain-specific matchers, retrieval systems, and even similarity metrics are fair game. Others, not explicitly discussed here, such as the status of discourse deictic expressions, nominalization resolution, and global coherence studies are fair game for basic, theoretical research. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English. We must play a fair game within the world.
They may be thought by the manufacturers or merchants to be " fair game ". From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive.
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Saying "there is no correct usage" implies that you can use "I'm game" however you want. But, in fact, you can't use it to mean "that's a good point", for example. You can't say "I'm game" if you are talking about someone else, you have to say "he's game" or "she's game". So, clearly, there are rules. CJM, that logic doesn't make any sense.
By that standard, nothing is English is correct, but only "common". As a descriptivist, I actually believe that correctness is in an ultimate sense, not case-by-case defined by usage -- but that doesn't mean idioms don't have a correct or standard usage, or that they have no rules -- it's just that these rules are dictated by common understanding just like everything else in English. What makes idioms idiomatic is not that they don't have rules, but they they form semantic units not necessarily decomposable using standard grammar rules.
Show 3 more comments. Here is an example: Q: Do you want to go see a movie tonight? That last one is a mouthful, so you can see the appeal of the first two! Kam Kam 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. What does "I'm down" mean? Jim Jim 27 1 1 bronze badge. First Known Use of parlor game , in the meaning defined above. Learn More About parlor game. Time Traveler for parlor game The first known use of parlor game was in See more words from the same year.
Style: MLA. English Language Learners Definition of parlor game. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your visual vocabulary with our question challenge! A2 [ C ] a particular competition , match , or occasion when people play a game:. I won the first game, and then lost the next two. It's games this afternoon. Susan is playing golf every day to try to improve her game. Love is just a game to him. After the game, the players were tired and demoralized.
We need two dice to play the game. A painful injury forced her to withdraw from the game. At the end of the game, there was a surge of fans onto the field.
Your jigsaw puzzles and games are all mixed up together in that box. Shall we sort them out? Pastimes - general words. General terms used in ball sports. I'm in the stocks and shares game.
UK informal working as a prostitute :. She went on the game to pay for her drug habit. US informal involved in illegal activities. Crime - general words. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Business - general words. Meat - general words. Grammar Play or game? Idioms be ahead of the game. It was a difficult challenge , but Roberta was game. She's game for anything.
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