Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is hedge one’s bets and it is a phrase meaning “avoid, dodge, evade, sidestep the issue at hand; be non-committal, be indecisive, be evasive (to deal with a difficulty nearby)”.
Example Sentence: They’ve also hedged their US bets for November: either they’ve boosted Trump, and he’ll owe them, or they’ve made a play that’s likely to win favour with Team Biden and the peace-process stalwarts who surround him.
This phrase is present in The The Guardian article Israel While Israel celebrates a new peace accord, Palestinians once again lose and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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