Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “pull the strings“ and it is a phrase meaning “to control someone’s actions secretly; manage, direct, supervise, oversee, be the boss of, guide”.
Example Sentence: In Mumbai, between 2013 and 2016, Chitra Ramkrishna , then chairperson of (National Stock Exchange) NSE, India’s largest bourse, claims to have been in the thrall (control) of a holy man in the Himalayas who pulled her strings remotely and stage-managed high appointments, princely salaries, and full access to the National Stock Exchange databases.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article The holy hoax and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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