goalpost

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 292 words | Copyright

goalpost move the goalposts unfairly alter the conditions or rules of a procedure during its course. The term has been current since the late 1980s, and provides a useful image for the idea of making an important (and usually unheralded) alteration to terms and conditions previously agreed.

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