Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is in the doldrums and it is a phrase meaning “inactive, slow, slack, sluggish, stagnant, lethargic, inert, dull”.
Example Sentence: This seems to be the thinking behind Rishi Sunak’s controversial new target to have all pupils in England study maths until the age of 18. Yet compulsory post-16 mathematics education is perhaps not the best way to encourage more pupils to take the subject. It’s not as if maths is languishing in the doldrums. It is already the most popular A-level subject; many thousands more students take maths than its nearest competitor, psychology.
This phrase is present in As a mathematician, I fear Rishi Sunak’s plan for compulsory maths doesn’t add up and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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