Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “a fork in the road” and its meaning is “(figuratively) a deciding moment/point where a decision, one of two possibilities, has to be made”.
Example Sentence: Rachel Kyte, at Tufts University, US, a former UN special representative for energy and former World Bank Group vice president, said: “Covid-19 puts our economies at a fork in the road. Using public money to bail out firms that will take us on the road which doesn’t accelerate decarbonisation and doesn’t address inequality is not just unaffordable, it’s dangerous.”
This phrase is present in ‘Coronavirus profiteers’ condemned as polluters gain bailout billions and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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