Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “cut no ice” and its meaning is “have no influence, have no effect, have no importance, have no significance, make no impression, fail to impress”.
Example Sentence: As Emmanuel Macron sought radically to reform France’s pensions system in 2019, one of his senior lieutenants warned that intense opposition in the streets would cut no ice. “We are not slowing down anything,” said Gilles Le Gendre, the then leader of Mr Macron’s La République En Marche party in the national assembly. “This is the emblematic reform of Macronism.”
This phrase is present in The Guardian view on Macron’s pensions reforms: a potential gift for the radical right and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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