move the goalposts

(British, American & Australian) also move the goal (American)

to change the rules in a situation in a way that is not fair, usually in order to make it more difficult for someone to achieve something My boss is never satisfied. Whenever I think I've done what he wants, he moves the goalposts.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Carmela	kahr-ME-lah	Italian, Spanish
Nydia	NID-ee-ə (English)	English (Rare), Spanish, Literature
Erika	e-REE-kah (Swedish, Norwegian), E-ree-kah (Finnish, German), ER-i-kə (English)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, English, Italian
Cearbhall	-	Irish
Gull	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Ahmad	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay