"open goal" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "An undefended goal."
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      "links": [
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        [
          "undefended",
          "undefended"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) An undefended goal."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "undefended goal",
          "word": "avoin maali"
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          "sense": "undefended goal",
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          "word": "gol a puerta vacía"
        },
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          "sense": "undefended goal",
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            "figuratively",
            "often"
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          "word": "öppet mål"
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          "ref": "2017 June 10, “Labour should have won against May's ‘open goal’, says MP”, in The Guardian, sourced from Press Association, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Labour missed an “open goal” to beat Theresa May and should not pretend it achieved a famous victory, a former shadow chancellor has said.",
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          "ref": "2022 September 26, Larry Elliott, “Rachel Reeves was never going to miss the open goal left by the Tories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An opportunity that is readily available."
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        "(figurative) An opportunity that is readily available."
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  "word": "open goal"
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        "(sports) An undefended goal."
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        "An opportunity that is readily available."
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        "(figurative) An opportunity that is readily available."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "undefended goal",
      "word": "avoin maali"
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      "sense": "undefended goal",
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      "word": "gol a puerta vacía"
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      "sense": "undefended goal",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "often"
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      "word": "öppet mål"
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