It's almost like I disagree with your use of the phrase in this context, rather than that I don't know the meaning of it.
replySo you defined your own idiosyncratic version of "moving the goalposts" and used it to rebut his argument, with a condescending "you understand that's how science works, right?"--instead of being honest that it is you who are changing the definition, and not his failure to understand anything.
replyI don't see how that's any better.
He rebutted the argument about moving the goalposts by moving the goalposts. It’s better by dint of sheer bravado.
replyHow were any of us meant to know that you were using your own personal and undisclosed definition of a well-established phrase?
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