Phrase of the Day (paint with the same brush)-25FEB23

Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “paint with the same brush” and its meaning is “to judge or characterize (someone or something) using the same unpleasant & bad quality, especially unfairly; if someone in a group has same bad qualities and behaves badly, then people wrongly think all others in that group are also bad”.

Example Sentence: Social media has contributed greatly to mobilising people into action and amplifying voices. Thanks to social media tools, the demands of protesters are well coordinated and their chants reverberate across geographies. However, there are problems too. Uniform narratives such as these can tend to paint everyone with the same brush. It is also hard sometimes to figure out when respondents are mixing fact with fiction.