move / shift the goalposts

move / shift the goalposts BrE informalto change the rules, limits etc for something while someone is trying to do something, making it more difficult for them – used to show disapproval改变规则〔以增大难度，含贬义〕

• Christmas Island
• fade into
• Silenus
• Chateauroux
• let the grass grow under one's feet
• anaxial
• at the first push
• ramble on
• dropsy
• trypanosome
• acrylate
• swear sb into sth
• in waves
• skyline
• emerald spodumene
• euthanasiast
• put one's foot in it（或put one's foot in one's mouth）
• ocellation
• mythol.
• trematode
• a low blow
• sea trout
• steeple
• make a mockery of sth
• be up to no good
• subdeacon
• dolings
• zigged
• cryptanalytic
• hysterectomises
• eradiating
• cloud-drop sampler
• associationists
• Galtieri
• put on/draw a(long) face
• berthollides
• candy store
• radicles
• clean one's ears
• butlership
• xenophilia
• asset stripper
• cinquecentists
• virtuous
• predicate nominative
• ceramic bond
• radon seed
• wordiest
• Pirineos
• -ware
• Kievan
• sabcat
• Windies
• conglomeritic
• scenograph
• infinitesimals
• lantern ring
• diastral
• capsulization
• homotopies
• as for sb / sth
• handhold
• nigh
• curtain off
• scratch up
• on-line analysis
• visor tin
• loanwords
• like shit
• break sth↔up
• brokages
• heroess
• immigrated
• aeroservoelasticity
• cost of mobility
• monopolizer
• cetavitaminic acid
• just as soon
• catch it in the neck
• Circalunadian
• scalper
• throwing the hammer
• carriage returns
• cleanlier
• treatiser
• alkali emission
• crude cumulative gas
• great blue herons
• surface inversion
• bombardons
• at stud
• ride shotgun
• riboflavin 5'-phosphate
• vaticinated
• amercement royal
• neomycin
• weakness
• squeezabilities
• win a bet with
• give bond for