Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “an arrow in the quiver“ and its meaning is “one of a number of resources or strategies or options that could be used to achieve your goal; quiver figuratively means a number of resources or strategies; Literally, quiver is an archer’s portable case for holding arrows”.
Example Sentence: Activists continue to be targeted, governments continue to be destabilised, and agencies continue to harass. Equally worryingly, this creative inertia does not inspire or enthuse the silent majority. Instead, it cements the impression that there is no alternative. Even though progressive parties do not have the instruments of the state at their disposal (except in a few States), they have other arrows in their quivers. They need to urgently experiment with disruptive political strategies…
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Reengineering India’s consciousness and click here to read it.
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