Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “a rap on the knuckles“ and its meaning is “criticism, censure, castigation, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproval, lambasting, scolding”.
Example Sentence: After receiving a rap on its knuckles from the Delhi High Court in 2019, the government introduced an entirely useless legal rule to address this issue. Instead of creating an obligation upon the regulator to vet the brand names before a drug could be marketed, the Ministry created a rule requiring pharmaceutical companies to provide a self-declaration that their proposed brand name was not similar to any of the existing brand names in the market.
This phrase is present in Regulatory reform stuck in a loop in Health Ministry and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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