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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First- and second-apron teams are barred from signing buyout players whose previous contract paid them more than $12.8 million, but cheap vets like Craig are fair game. —

Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2025 Be sure to bring along a Nordic-style knit cardigan; this is where Fair Isles, cable knits, and intarsia motifs are all fair game. —

Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025 Judge Arnold ruled Ephron’s bank statements would be fair game while only his social media posts from after the Nov. 6, 2021 incident, not before, would be allowed. —

Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025 So even though the hen-petting Popeye is in the public domain, the spinach-eating hero won’t be fair game for a few years. —

Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fair game