Dictionary

open goal en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An undefended goal.
2. (figuratively) An opportunity that is readily available.
   • Reeves, a former Bank of England economist, was presented with an open goal thanks to Kwasi Kwarteng’s badly received mini-budget and she was determined not miss it. 2022 September 26, Larry Elliott, “Rachel Reeves was never going to miss the open goal left by the Tories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Labour missed an “open goal” to beat Theresa May and should not pretend it achieved a famous victory, a former shadow chancellor has said. 2017 June 10, “Labour should have won against May's ‘open goal’, says MP”, in The Guardian, sourced from Press Association, →ISSN:
   • But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home,[…] Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal. 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

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Translations (5)

fi avoin maali (undefended goal) · is liggja vel við höggi (opportunity that is readily available) · es gol a puerta vacía (undefended goal) · sv öppet mål (undefended goal) · de offene Tür (opportunity that is readily available)