Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is smooth someone’s ruffled feathers and it is a phrase meaning “to try to calm down someone who is angry, upset, irritated or annoyed”.
Example Sentence: The trilateral security agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) continues to be in the news. At the COP26 meeting at Glasgow, U.S. President Joe Biden tried to smoothen ruffled feathers when he candidly (frankly) told his French counterpart, President Emmanuel Macron, that the Australian submarine deal with France had been handled clumsily (awkwardly).
This phrase is present in The Hindu article AUKUS could rock China’s boat in the Indo-Pacific and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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