Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “the tail wags the dog” and its meaning is “a situation in which an unimportant thing dominates/controls the whole of other important thing(s)”.
Example Sentence: The supreme court lawyer Karuna Nundy criticised the investigation into Rhea Chakraborty as a “fishing expedition”, and said her subsequent arrest was “mainly to satisfy a manufactured public bloodlust before the Bihar elections”. “This is a fascist cocktail of media, politics and the misuse of legal machinery,” said Nundy. “It’s a wag-the-dog style of creation of spectacle to take eyeballs away from the economy, which has shrunk by 24% in the last quarter, and Covid mismanagement. Both of which would otherwise be disastrous for the ruling party.”
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Sushant Singh Rajput: actor’s death fuels media frenzy in India and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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