Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is off the back of and it’s meaning is “as a result of something; because of something, owing to something, due to something; following, after, in the wake of”.
Example Sentence: And you know what the tech overlords are doing while we are fighting on the internet all day? They are getting extremely rich. They’re paddle-boarding in Hawaii. They’re banning their children from using social media while simultaneously planning a version of Instagram for kids, because our children can grow up anxious, depressed and miserable off the back of their algorithms, but not theirs.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Social media is a bad feelings machine. Why can’t we just turn it off for good? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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