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Phrase of the Day (gloom and doom)-07SEP21

Phrase of the Day (gloom and doom)-07SEP21

Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “gloom and doom” and its meaning is “a general feeling of pessimism; defeatism, negative thinking, negativity, expecting the worst, gloominess, hopelessness, despondency, bad news”.

Example Sentence: There are good reasons to believe that the return of the Taliban in Kabul will spell gloom and doom for the Chinese. The Taliban ruling groups are far from (not at all) united, making it impossible to make any reliable domestic and international policy predictions.

This phrase is present in The Hindu article A Taliban-led Afghanistan and the Chinese conundrum and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Hindu

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