Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “on the rise” and its meaning is “becoming very successful; increasing, becoming higher/greater (in number, amount, value, etc.)”.
Example Sentence: Covid-19 has quietly become the gift that keeps on giving for big pharma. The past two years has seen it reap huge profits from Covid vaccines, while simultaneously opposing wider sharing of the technology required to make them. And now there’s a new money-spinner (golden goose, cash cow) on the rise: Covid antiviral treatment pills. Once again, we’re poised to fall into the same inequality traps we’re caught in with the global vaccine rollout.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The Covid treatment pill is here – and big pharma will ultimately decide who gets it and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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