Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is bring/come to a grinding halt and it is a phrase meaning “(referring to an activity in a situation) becomes inactive slowly and then stops completely”.
Example Sentence: The unprecedented action taken by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to suspend all domestic flight operations from midnight Tuesday to combat COVID-19 will ground the entire fleet of Indian airlines estimated at 650 aircraft. The suspension of domestic operations will bring commercial aviation in India to a grinding halt.
This phrase is present in today’s The Hindu business news article Virus set to ground all planes and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu.
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