Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “off the back of” and it’s meaning is “following, after, as a result of, because of, owing to, due to, as a consequence of, in view of, in the wake of, at a time of”.
Example Sentence: Most important are the midterm elections in the US. If Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy off the back of midterm election successes for his partisans, this could spell big trouble for what has so far been rare bipartisan consensus in the US on large-scale economic and military support for Ukraine. Notoriously reluctant to criticise Putin, Trump has told his supporters that “the Democrats are sending another $40bn to Ukraine, yet America’s parents are struggling to even feed their children”.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Putin is banking on a failure of political will in the west before Russia runs out of firepower and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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