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A period of unrestrained criticism or attack on something or someone, as in During an election year it's open season on all officeholders . This expression alludes to the period during which one may legally hunt or fish. [ Colloquial ; c. 1900]

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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.

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