Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “groan under the weight of” and its meaning is “used to mention that there is too much of something; used to say that there is a very large number of something; having a lot of something”.
Example Sentence: She (Ms. Angela Merkel) has been the world’s most powerful woman on a global stage groaning under the weight of swaggering (boastful) men. She was the grownup in the room when Britain and the US looked like twins having a transatlantic tantrum (an outburst of anger).
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Brexit made an unlikely hero of Angela Merkel for Britain’s remainers and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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