Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “in one fell swoop“ and it is a phrase meaning “if you do something at/in one fell swoop, you do all at once; together, at the same time, in one go, with one move, outright”.
Example Sentence: In one fell swoop, that announcement (of freezing the central bank’s foreign exchange reserves) has essentially eradicated the relevance of Russia’s massive official foreign exchange reserves, and with it, sowed the seeds for big problems for the Russian economy. I had been thinking throughout recent weeks: how can a country that is no longer in the top 10 largest of the world’s economy (barely 2% of global GDP now) have such apparent military importance around the world?
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Putin’s errors over Ukraine could herald big change for global finance and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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