Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “fly in the face of“ and its meaning is “go against, flout, defy, disobey, disregard, ignore”.
Example Sentence: Under the provisions of the proposed law, the state can choose to investigate the motives behind a woman’s change of religion and has the power to annul an inter-faith marriage if it finds that its sole “purpose” is her religious conversion. This flies in the face of a constitutional fact: Neither clan council nor khap panchayat, and certainly not a democratic government, has the licence to vet personal choices as right or wrong.
This phrase is present in The Indian Express Editorial article Roll it back and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Indian Express
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