Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “hedge one’s bets” and it is a phrase meaning “avoid, dodge, evade, sidestep the issue at hand; be non-committal, be indecisive, be evasive (to deal with a difficulty nearby)”.
Example Sentence: There is an eerily familiar feeling to this pattern: sharply rising cases, scientists sounding the alarm, the public acting accordingly, and Downing Street continuing to hedge its bets while other nations go further,… The government appears to hope it can dodge responsibility for the economic costs of curbing Covid by muddling its messages, doing too little to protect an NHS which was already under severe strain while essentially pretending that the shuttered businesses and laid-off workers are not its problem.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on the Omicron surge: the public leads again and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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