Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “queer the pitch“ and its meaning is “to spoil something that someone had planned to do (in order to achieve something)”.
Example Sentence: Regional elites have a vantage point from which the BJP and the Congress are not radically different:.. Most of them see the BJP as a bigger threat to their interests at this moment, but that does not mean that the regional elites find a natural ally in the Congress. They negotiate with both. The AAP queered the pitch for the Congress in Gujarat and the TMC did the same in Goa, paving the BJP’s path to victory.
This word is present in Political Line | Big Picture: Five vantage points of opposition to Narendra Modi and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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