Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “raise someone’s hackles“ and it is a phrase meaning “make someone angry; annoy, irritate, upset, rile, irk”.
Example Sentence: The recent Lancet estimates of COVID-19-associated orphanhood, which put the number at over 19 lakh children orphaned as a result of COVID-19, has raised India’s hackles. India has objected strongly to the estimate of 19 lakh… As per data collected by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and collated on the Bal Swaraj portal, the number of children orphaned during COVID-19 in India was far lower, at 1.53 lakh.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article History demands the west deploy every legal and financial weapon against Putin and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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