Open goals and jumping the gun more sporting idioms

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- This post presents some more common sporting idioms
- If you describe a situation as an open goal, you mean that it gives someone an opportunity to do something very easily and without opposition
- An own goal is something that harms you and benefits an opponent
- If someone moves the goalposts, they change the rules or requirements of something in a way that makes it more difficult
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