Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “slam/shut the door on” and its meaning is “to refuse to consider/accept something (an idea, plan, solution, etc.); deny, reject, decline, spurn, dismiss (an idea/plan/solution)”.
Example Sentence: Like the crash of 2008, the pandemic has proved that economies characterised by these features are full of weaknesses. Worse still, in the period between these two events, these defects created seething (raging/furious) tensions that fed into the growth of a new rightwing politics, whose figureheads are now attempting to slam the door on globalisation and the movement of people, with apparently blithe disregard for both the human and economic consequences.
This word is present in The Guardian article A shortage of workers is driving up wages: are we entering a new economic era? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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