Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “in one fell swoop“ and it is a phrase meaning “if you do something at/in one fell swoop, you do all at once; together, at the same time, in one go, with one move, outright”.
Example Sentence: Let us go to the year 1984: the BJP’s two out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha versus the Congress’s Rajiv Gandhi and its 414 seats, which remains unbeaten. It was hard for any political party to rise from the ashes of these dimensions. However, the BJP did so, with great help from the woolly ‘secularism’ of Rajiv Gandhi. In one fell swoop of two ‘secular’ steps, he paved the way for the BJP’s revival:…
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Reading from the old script, conceding election 2024 and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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