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fair game

fɛr geɪm
WordNet
  1. (n) fair game
    a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence "he fell prey to muggers","everyone was fair game","the target of a manhunt"
Idioms

Fair game - If something or someone is fair game, then it is acceptable to target, criticise or attack them.

Usage in the news

State Fair game operators warned against scamming customers. apt.com

Romney's record at Bain Capital is fair game , Obama says (+video). csmonitor.com

Taking the debate to Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her cutting crew is fair game . inlander.com

All fair game at Summit. espn.go.com

Why Romney's High School Bullying Is Fair Game . motherjones.com

Illegal During Watergate, Unlimited Campaign Contributions Now Fair Game . kar.org

'It's fair game on goaltenders'. espn.go.com

Questions about Mitt Romney's faith are fair game . deseretnews.com

Maryland Gaming Law Fairly Neutral on Racing. bloodhorse.com

Mayfair Games' popular Catan game served as inspiration when high fashion joined the gaming world on the runway Nov 14 at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair. modelretailer.com

While many are looking foward to all the fun and games at the Cowley County Fair, one ride, in particular will not be making a return to this year's fair. ksokradio.com

The 54th annual fair featuring games, food and rides begins June 28th and runs thru July 10. phillyburbs.com

All Packers topics are fair game. greenbaypressgazette.com

They're still fair game for public mockery. ashingtonpost.com

Mike Garafolo looks at what's wrong with the Giants' passing game right now, and lays a pretty fair share of the blame at the feet of two-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback Eli Manning. espn.go.com

Usage in scientific papers

This condition can be computed using Gist following the same steps as in the above example: first the tool finds that no safety assumption is necessary, and then it computes the fairness assumption in the synthesis game.
GIST: A Solver for Probabilistic Games

Under the unique games conjecture, the approximability of finite-valued VCSP is fairly well-understood.
Min CSP on Four Elements: Moving Beyond Submodularity

It is unclear, however, from this method which choice of the parameters will yield the fair games.
Diophantine Equations of Matching Games I

Furthermore, we characterize the components containing the fair games.
Diophantine Equations of Matching Games I

For n = 3, we show that the graph consists of two trees with the nontrivial 3-color fair games forming a full binary tree.
Diophantine Equations of Matching Games I

Usage in literature

When that was fairly going, he cut the choicest slices from his game, and it was speedily broiled over the blaze. "Camp-fire and Wigwam" by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The question arose, Was he refusing the money fairly or was he merely playing a game? "A Successful Shadow" by Harlan Page Halsey

He had planned this "game" which now bade fair to be such an utter failure, and if anyone must suffer, why, let it be him. "Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter" by Lawrence L. Lynch

I have lost to you, but the game was not fair; dear mendicant, you played with a card up your sleeve! "The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance" by Paul Elmer More

He looked on me as fair game. "Stingaree" by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Remorseless he was by choice, but he would play the game with an English sportsman's love of fair play. "A Daughter of Raasay" by William MacLeod Raine

In your lightest games, you have always some one to see what you call 'fair-play. "The Crown of Wild Olive" by John Ruskin

You were out of position, but if you hadn't been, that ball would have fallen fair, and Tom Binns would have lost his game. "The Boy Scout Fire Fighters" by Robert Maitland

Bill he knew already fairly well as a tough nut to crack, game to the core, and staunch to his friends. "Crooked Trails and Straight" by William MacLeod Raine

She has played and won, and now she holds it hardly fair that she should interfere with other people's game. "Modern Women and What is Said of Them" by Anonymous

Usage in poetry
By gum; that woman! But she beat me flat!
A man's jist putty in a game like that.
She owned me 'appy 'ome almost before
She fairly got 'er nose inside me door.
The King has asked of his son so good,
“Why art thou hushed and heavy of mood?
O fair it is to ride abroad.
Thou playest not, and thou laughest not;
All thy good game is clean forgot.”
The lovely Fair come next in view;
They are the game I must pursue.
No--at a distance I shall stand;
I own they've far the upper hand.
No character my Muse assails;
I'd rather have their lips than nails.
Dear Comrade: In the game of politics
A Senator gits quite enough of kicks
Without 'is photer sittin' in the press
Wot makes 'is map look like a nasty mess --
A pitcher that present 'im to the mob
A fair gazob.
'E makes me tired. But, all the same,
I tries to work a little game.
"Look 'ere," I sez. "About this Flo.
Jim mightn't come back 'ome, yeh know.
You 'ave a fly; yeh're sure to score;
Besides, all's fair in love an'war."
We'd had a meetin' at the mill; the boss had said his say -
The good old boss, who stints himself to find the men their pay -
He told us, fair an' honest, he was up against the game
Unless he got the timber out before the Winter came.