Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “wring one’s hands” and its meaning is “to twist and rub one’s hands together because of great distress particularly when someone has no authority/power and can’t do anything to change the situation”.
Example Sentence: A great deal of wringing of hands about the choices made may exist, but on a deeper reflection, it would be apparent that the original sin was the U.S. Agreement with the Taliban last year, which conferred on the group a degree of international recognition. Many more aftershocks can also be expected. Hopes of a pragmatic Afghanistan behind the religious garb (cover/guise) may thus prove highly evanescent.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Picking up the threads from the Afghan rubble and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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