Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “at a low ebb“ and it is a phrase meaning “in a bad state; in a poor condition; in a state of decline; in a weakened state; at a low point”.
Example Sentence: Sitaram Yechury, along with his predecessor Prakash Karat, was instrumental in making the JNU an impregnable Left bastion. During his nearly five-decade political career, he broke several conventions, first of which was to become the president of the Students’ Federation of India. All the presidents till then had come from Kerala or Bengal; he did not belong to either. He had never headed a district or State unit of the party. Yet, he became a member of the Central Committee at 32 and of the Polit Bureau at 40. A three-time general secretary of the party, he was elected for the first time in 2015. His accession to the seat came at the lowest ebb of the party.
This phrase is present in Sitaram Yechury: The man with multiple identities and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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