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单词 move the goalposts
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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.
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