Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “strike a blow at” and its meaning is “to act against something; to oppose/harm something; reject, resist, stand against”.
Example Sentence: Ubiquitous discrimination strikes a blow at the very core of academic culture where the teaching community is directed to submit to governing bodies, which in turn are answerable to an overbearing patron seemingly lacking a broad progressive policy that encourages debate and disagreement.
This phrase is present in The Indian university is in a free fall and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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