Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is up in arms and it is a phrase meaning “If someone is up in arms about something, he/she is very angry about it and is protesting strongly against it; very angry, infuriated, annoyed, vexed, irritated, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked”.
Example Sentence: Over the last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been busy, in an unprecedented effort, to calculate the global death toll from COVID-19. This effort, however, has India’s health establishment up in arms. Globally from an estimated six million reported deaths, WHO now estimates these deaths to be closer to almost triple the number.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Settling India’s COVID-19 mortality data and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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