large wild animals, especially when hunted for sport.
Expensive vacation packages to hunt big game like leopards or elephants in Africa are marketed almost exclusively to wealthy foreign tourists.
large fish, as tuna and marlin, when sought by deep-sea anglers.
Participants in the sport fishing tournament regularly return to shore with big game exceeding 200 pounds.
a major objective, especially one that involves risk.
The merger shows their commitment to the big game, in a market where half measures just won’t pay off.
large animals that are hunted or fished for sport
informal the objective of an important or dangerous undertaking
First recorded in 1860–65
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"It's a do or die game for us. But they do it all year. "I think these guys will let this one go and they'll show up to play tomorrow.
From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2015
I figured they would play well – they were at home, they were in a do or die game and they knew they had been humiliated on national TV the week before.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2011
THEE: Kobe Bryant sent Michael Vick a personally autographed jersey right before a do or die game.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2011
The French, reported a New York Timesman from Paris, regarded the beginning of war as the end of civilization, but were ready "to die game."
From Time Magazine Archive
There were many questions in his mind about what he had seen and known, and he worked at research when he got back, identifying die game and berries.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
