Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “come to blows” and its meaning is “to start fighting (after having a heated argument)”.
Example Sentence: Sudan’s leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese army, and the country’s deputy leader, Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti), the head of a paramilitary organisation called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had been sharing power since late 2021,… By February, inside Sudan, people were growing increasingly afraid that Burhan and Hemedti could come to blows and plunge the country into armed conflict… Meanwhile, the two generals escalated their war of words, both attempting to portray themselves as the tribune of the people.
This phrase is present in Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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