Idiom
Pick-up game.
(USA) A pick-up game is something unplanned where people respond to events as they happen.
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If Garner's team successfully imposes law and order in Iraq, economic life will swiftly pick up and much aid will be superfluous.
The report was swiftly picked up by news agencies and newspapers in other countries.
The €5.6 million picture or thereabouts was swiftly picked up by a German collector.
It was swiftly picked up by critics of Mr Corbyn, who is the national chair of one of the annual demonstration's supporters, the Stop the War Coalition.
Quick-witted, charismatic and attractive, he was swiftly picked up by the fashion pack and was soon writing style features for The Sunday Times, The Observer and Vanity Fair.
To be fair, it was George Osborne who first mooted the idea of charging non-doms an annual levy – a proposal swiftly picked up by Alistair Darling – and more than 130,000 wealthy individuals have since signed up to register as non-doms.
State-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti immediately criticised the prize as a "political tool"—a denunciation swiftly picked up and relayed by Xinhua.
The story was swiftly picked up by blogs and gossip sites, then newspapers, then kicked around on the cable shows before receiving it's ultimate judgment at the hands of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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