Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “pull one’s weight“ and its meaning is “to do one’s fair share of the (larger) work/task (which is divided among a number of people)”.
Example Sentence: The Red Army reached Berlin first in 1945 and Khrushchev gave the Americans a fright by sending a human being to outer space. None of this could have been achieved without the concerted application of high intelligence and the expectation that everyone in society pull their weight.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Barriers to a knowledge society in Kerala and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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