| 释义 |
move the goalposts(US also move the goalpost) Unfairly alter the conditions or rules of a procedure during its course.Changing the rules is one thing, moving the goalposts after a shot has been taken is quite another....- Proving that ID isn't science is useful, and I think even necessary, but it does not preclude the creationists from moving the goalposts, as they are already trying to do in Dover.
- They immediately started moving the goalposts.
See parent entry: goalpost |