Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “on the back of“ and it is a phrase meaning “because of, as a result of”.
Example Sentence: If you passed by the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Thursday, you would have seen a stream of insults projected on to the side of the building: “Elon Musk: mediocre manchild, pressurised privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac…” Inside, employees had received a message asking them to sign a pledge to work “long hours at high intensity” or leave their jobs. This came on the back of large-scale layoffs and an all-company email sent at 2.30am declaring “there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn”.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The Elon Musk effect: have we reached our limit with awful bosses? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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