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Open season?

Of course, of course.

Anyways, during the open season, one is allowed to shoot and kill however they like, hence the figurative connotations we infer that when people have an open season on Tiger the fallen golfer, they attack him relentlessly and without restraint.

Alright, here are two more examples to help you master this phrase – to have an open season on something or someone:

1. Industry experts warn that lobsters will soon disappear from the nation’s menus if over-fishing is allowed to continue to push South African stocks towards extinction.

The recent extension of rights to subsistence fishers has created an “open season” on West Coast rock lobsters, also known as crayfish, which is being exploited by Chinese triads and has reduced the shellfish stocks to a level lower than those of abalone, they said.

The collapse of the lobster fishing industry would mean the end of an industry that supports more than 4,300 jobs and is worth an estimated R347-million.

“Lobster stock is about 3% of pristine, which is the level needed to sustain fishing. They are biologically worse off than abalone, which is at 8%,” said Shaheen Moolla, the former head of Marine and Coastal Management (MCM).

The devastation started in 2007, he said, after former environmental affairs minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced “interim measures” to grant subsistence fishing rights for lobsters, which are easily accessible inside the 200m-depth shallows along the West Coast to East London.