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: India will elect a new President on July 18. The discussion over the possibility of a joint candidate has divided the Opposition that has little chance of winning the election anyway. The ambitions of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, and their attempts to keep the Congress restrained have queered the pitch for the Opposition.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article The limits of rewriting history, a presidential election, bulldozers and the law and more and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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