Synonyms for fair game

Grammar : Noun

Définition of fair game

noun legitimate target

Example sentences :

The infidels, he said, were God's natural enemies and fair game to the Christian.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

But though they might be fair game, the game had its rules—anomalous as it may seem.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

Upon my word, he was too unsuspecting; he was not fair game.
Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad

You can play a fair game if you go to work and spend some time on the floor.
Extract from : « Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore » by Pauline Lester

Any kind of a fox, deceased or otherwise, is fair game for Buddy.
Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford

It's a game now—fair game—and you're glad you came to the tea!
Extract from : « The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) » by Various

A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

She was an impartial referee; her one desire being to play a fair game.
Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird

The Yankees in Bardstown had been fair game, and their bluff there had been an adventure.
Extract from : « Ride Proud, Rebel! » by Andre Alice Norton

Before God that is perhaps very reprehensible, but before men it is thought a fair game.
Extract from : « The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adlade de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr » by Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d Orlans; Marie Adelaide, of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy; and Madame de Maintenon

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