Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is make hay out of and its meaning is “to take advantage of an opportunity; to make the most of something (an opportunity/a chance)”.
Example Sentence: On a jam-packed first full day (of Cop27), we heard from António Guterres, the UN secretary general, who dramatically proclaimed that we are on the “highway to climate hell”. We also heard an enthusiastic and bombastic speech from the former prime minister Boris Johnson… Johnson made a dramatic entrance, speaking to the New York Times and seeming to make political hay out of the fact (that the current prime minister), Rishi Sunak did not originally plan on coming to Cop.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article ‘Fight of our lives’: what happened on the first day of Cop27? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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