Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is run a tight ship and its meaning is “to be very strict and effective in controlling an organization”.
Example Sentence: The business weekly Forbes’s choice was a little more surprising: naming Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, “the world’s most powerful woman”. Von der Leyen oversees the commission like a military operation... In policy terms, she runs a tight ship, keeping everything close to her chest (including Brexit talks), often leaving other commissioners in the dark. This does not make her popular among staff. Employees complain they are chronically overworked. Vacancies stay open for months because appointments have not had VDL’s imprimatur.
This phrase is present in Why Ursula von der Leyen is the ‘world’s most powerful woman’ and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
“Phrasal Verbs” We Learnt Last Week
“Idioms & Phrases” We Learnt Last Week
“Important Definitions” We Learnt Last Week