Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “drop the ball“ and its meaning is “make a mistake; make an error; fail to do something; miss an opportunity; mishandle something (because of carelessness or inattention)”.
Example Sentence: Successive governments issued waste management rules, but dropped the ball on implementation. Although the Centre recently issued a draft to tighten the Plastic Waste Management Rules, cities have failed to implement existing rules as well as the Solid Waste Management rules, on ending single-use plastics, waste segregation, recycling labels on packaging, extended producer responsibility for manufacturers and recovery of materials.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article The Ganga’s message: On microplastics pollution and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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