in contention
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (sports) Contending for a title or championship.
- 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC[1]:
- But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, contention.