Meaning of free-for-all | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.
   idiomatic
2. A deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.

Equivalents

Examples

“When the fire alarm went off, it was a free-for-all.”

“Competition was the order of the day: the industrial warfare of the sixties was a free-for-all.”

“[…] this was a consequence of building Tubes by means of a competitive free-for-all. Each company wanted to expand its territory at the expense of the others.”

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