Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “fall/trip over oneself“ and its meaning is “to be very eager or to try hard to do something, particularly something you do not normally do (but still, you make efforts to do something as a way of gaining attention or approval)”.
Example Sentence: We have become used to sportswashing, greenwashing, pinkwashing and even wokewashing. We are now in the first wave of coronawashing, in which corporations trip over themselves to clap for key workers, before packaging the footage up into moving nuggets of shareable content and promoting them on several social media platforms.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Businesses making eco-friendly claims to be vetted by watchdog and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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