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Phrase of the Day (catch/take someone’s fancy)-05SEP22

Phrase of the Day (catch/take someone's fancy)-05SEP22

Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “catch/take someone’s fancy” and its meaning is “to appeal to someone; to be of interest to someone; be liked by someone”.

Example Sentence: Industrialist Gautam Adani, last week broke into the top three in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, trailing only Tesla founder Elon Musk and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos… More recently, telecommunications and the media industry have caught Mr. Adani’s fancy. Recently, he successfully bid for telecom spectrum meant to provide 5G services to enterprises including for data centres and is now engaged in a hostile takeover bid of the Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy-founded news production company New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV).

This phrase is present in The Hindu article Gautam Adani | From a trader to the world’s third-richest and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Hindu

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