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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Defrauding the state was universally seen as fair game — most scammers believed politicians only achieved power through fraud anyway.
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Other playful jeering is fair game, including when a winner selects the next ticket and ends up drawing his own numbers twice more in a row.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Everything touching the sporting world is fair game.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
There are details in all eight episodes that are based on verifiable facts, but anything unverifiable, anything that might have happened, even in Ed’s mind, is fair game for Monster, too.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Other playful jeering is fair game, including when a winner selects the next ticket and ends up drawing his own numbers twice more in a row.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Everything touching the sporting world is fair game.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
There are details in all eight episodes that are based on verifiable facts, but anything unverifiable, anything that might have happened, even in Ed’s mind, is fair game for Monster, too.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for fair game
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“Fair game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair%20game. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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