Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “come on the heels of” and its meaning is “to happen very soon after something; close behind, soon after, right after, following closely, immediately following.”.
Example Sentence: Four Indian-American women were racially abused in Texas on Wednesday by a Mexican-American woman, who said that they were “ruining” America and should “go back to India”… The attack is yet another in a string of deplorable anti-Asian hate crimes that have taken place over the past two years and comes on the heels of a similar incident involving the first India- American woman in Congress, Pramila Jaya, said Indian American Impact.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Indian Americans condemn racist attack in Texas and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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