Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “last nail in the coffin“ and its meaning is “an event, action or problem that brings about the end or failure of something which is already becoming weak”.
Example Sentence: The last nail in the coffin of the public health system is the recent transformation of sub centres, PHCs and CHCs into health and wellness centres (HWC) in February 2018. The highlight was to declare that 1,50,000 HWCs were established as new institutions in rural areas, when numbers more than that were already in existence (RHS 2015).
This phrase is present in Policy paralysis, a weakened public health sector and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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