Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “sacrifice at the altar of“ and its meaning is “make someone/something suffer for the benefit of someone/something else”.
Example Sentence: Known as India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru is a melting pot of cultures and has one of the largest tech talent pools in India. This brand value is perceived as getting dented owing to the recent communal skirmishes… Many say that Karnataka’s IT sector, though well incentivised, grew with minimal intervention of the political class over the last three decades and it cannot be “sacrificed” at the altar of vote bank politics.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article In Karnataka, skirmishes affect businesses and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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