Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “be in the same boat” and it’s meaning is “be in the same unpleasant or difficult situation as other people”.
Example Sentence: India should seek collaboration on limited focus areas around science and technology, building on resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other multilateral bodies. A new conceptual frame is needed. First, the presumed equality that we are all in the same boat, recognised in the case of climate change, needs to be expanded to other areas with a global impact redefining ‘common concerns’. Second, emerging economies are no longer to be considered the source of problems needing external solutions but source of solutions to shared problems.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article A new global vision for G20 and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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