a level playing field

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   a situation in which everyone has the same opportunities

   because everyone's one an equal, level playing field, an equal par.

In the movies · 1

• because everyone's one an equal, level playing field, an equal par.American Movie1999
• Level playing field now, my ratty little friend.Rush2013
• Level the playing field if you canFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• Power to level the playing field.Project Power2020
• That might level the playing field a bit.Star Wars: The Clone Wars2008
• You know, level the playing field, so to speak.Widows2018
• The enemy'’s new fifth-generation fighter has leveled the playing field.Top Gun: Maverick2022
• The information contained in this little bottle helps keep sport on the level playing field.Icarus2017

Learn it in full scenes

• American Movie1999
  • Mark's Twelfth Hour Deadline
  • Mark Pitches Northwestern
  • Family Fights Over the Phone Bill

From the same entry

• on the level
• be level pegging
• do your level best
• level the playing field
• level against
• level down
• level off
• level up
• level with

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• beyond wildest dreams
• blow the whistle on
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