in the game
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- (idiomatic, sports) Competing in a game, with a chance of winning.
- Synonyms: in the running, in the hunt
- 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC[1]:
- Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.
- (idiomatic) Focused; engaged; serious.
- He's seriously doing badly in school right now. He needs to get back in the game, or he's gonna drop out.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: in the game.
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