noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
move
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The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.
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The traditional Shrove Tuesday football match is to move its goalposts 100 yards downstream.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He walked ninety-eight yards for the winning touchdown and when they got the flashlight fixed, there he was under the goalposts.
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He was critical, too, of government sources for changing the position of the goalposts when defining economic recovery.
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I was checked into the net and my head hit the goalpost .
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The only good thing about his rude awakening was the discovery of a gigantic hedgehog behind one of the goalposts.
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The traditional Shrove Tuesday football match is to move its goalposts 100 yards downstream.
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Until the goalposts moved, roughly half of publicly listed firms in financial trouble opted for the private route.