Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is ebb and flow and its meaning is “used to explain something that changes regularly; decline and then growth, decrease and increase, fall and rise, come in and go out”.
Example Sentence: “Some creatures, like the gorgonian sea fan corals, which you expect to only see in crystal clear pristine waters, are found here (In Mumbai) along the shores. Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world that you are looking at. It’s as dynamic as the ebb and flow of the tides,” Sejal Mehta, editor at Marine Life of Mumbai (MLOM) adds.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article ‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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