change the game

verb
/ˈt͡ʃeɪn(d͡)ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/UK/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/US

Etymology

Probably from the ability of a player of a team sport who has been brought on to the field as substitute to alter the outcome of the game.

Definitions

  1. To revolutionize a field of endeavor.

    • Today, Moore is in transition from a communications-product company to an information-management company, selling information-management systems— […] How has this changed the game for Moore salespeople?
    • Brave and resourceful, creative and effective, will be the hallmarks of the transformative CEO. For the transformative CEO has no choice but to change the game, and to change the game forever.
    • Four years before Fury Road, the Welsh director Gareth Evans made the berserker Indonesian fight movie The Raid: Redemption, changing the game by reducing the action movie to its simplest elements, telling it with visceral style.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA