Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “bang/beat one’s head against a brick wall“ and its meaning is “to keep trying/doing something hard without any success”.
Example Sentence: Howl, beat your head against the wall, tear your hair and despair of this country. How can it be that nearly half the population thinks the reason people lost their jobs in the pandemic was due to their own underperformance?. Just 31% attribute it to bad luck.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article It’s heartless to blame job losses on unemployed people – but it’s how much of Britain thinks and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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