We have been living in Boston for a long time and I do not want to move anywhere. but my parents decided to change the city in connection with work, my father went on promotion and at the beginning of the summer we were going to move to New York. I was born in Boston and it's hard for me to leave my hometown, but it does not depend on me...
Moving the goalposts
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The act of redefining the conditions for victory or completion of a task, either when the original conditions for achieving them were met or whilst the person or group is busy working to achieve the current conditions, in order to prevent them from succeeding. Usually done with [malice] by a superior or [peer] looking to [exclude] or remove people from a group by portraying them as incompetent of not completing the task they keep altering.
Moving the goalposts meaning & definition 1 of Moving the goalposts.
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