only game in town, the

The only choice, which one must accept for want of a better one. For example, Out here, this bank is the only game in town when it comes to financial services. This term, dating from the early 1900s, originally alluded to a gambler looking for a game in a strange town.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Small	[smɔ:l]
Milo	MIE-lo (English)	English, Ancient Germanic
Mareike	mah-RIE-kə (German)	Frisian, German
Fedora	-	Russian
Sofia	zo-FEE-ah (German), so-FEE-ah (Italian), soo-FEE-ə (Portuguese), SO-fee-ah (Finnish)	Norwegian, Swedish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Slovak, Romanian
Merle	MURL	English