Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “a foregone conclusion” and its meaning is “a predictable result, an inevitable result, a predictable outcome, inevitability, certainty, matter of course”.
Example Sentence: the institutions that are generously funded by the Centre perform better than their State-sponsored counterparts on all academic performance indicators — faculty strength, modernised laboratories, building infrastructure, digitised libraries, sponsored research project grants, computing facilities, etc. Therefore, that the State-funded higher education institutions (HEIs) would not perform well in these rankings was a forgone conclusion.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article The problem with our university vision and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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