Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “drag kicking and screaming“ and its meaning is “to force a reluctant person (continuously) to do something; nag, badger, force, compel, pressurize”.
Example Sentence: According to what Jeff Bezos told CNN, philanthropy “is really hard”. It certainly seems to be for him. Do recall he was only dragged kicking and screaming to the giving-a-shit game, having spent years accruing billions before it was finally pointed out to him that not having some kind of philanthropic arm looked fairly abysmal. In 2017 Bezos asked Twitter users for ideas on how to help the world “in the here and now”, before embarking on a truly committed programme of ignoring every single one of them who suggested paying his workers properly and contributing fair tax.
This word is present in The Guardian article All hail Jeff Bezos the philanthropist! The rest of us will just keep paying our taxes and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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