goalpost
Example Sentences
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"My worry now, as I'm approaching later life, is when can I actually afford to retire? Because the goalpost seems to move," he says.
From BBC
The 99-year-old polo field, where Rogers played with friends including Walt Disney and Clark Gable, is still green and largely unscathed, though the announcer’s booth and goalposts burned.
From Los Angeles Times
Your Party officials have dismissed MoU's complaints as irrelevant and accused it of shifting the goalposts.
From BBC
The biotech firm UniQure on Monday reported that the FDA had moved the goalposts for approving its Huntington’s disease gene therapy.
Their coalition scored a historic victory in 2018, but the alliance began to unravel as the nonagenarian kept shifting the goalposts for handing over power.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
