Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is kick the can down the road and its meaning is “to avoid dealing with a difficult situation or making a hard decision until later; delay, defer, put off, postpone”.
Example Sentence: With much economic activity suspended and fiscal revenues in free fall, many countries will be forced to default. Others will cobble together scarce resources to pay creditors, cutting back on much-needed health and social expenditures. Still others will resort to additional borrowing, kicking the proverbial (famous) can down the road, seemingly easier now because of the flood of liquidity from central banks around the world.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article A global debt crisis is looming – how can we prevent it? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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