Phrase of the Day (take a shot)-07JUL23

Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is take a shot and its meaning is “to try to do something successfully; to attempt/aim/strive to achieve something“.

Example Sentence: Mark Zuckerberg said Threads was Meta’s attempt at taking a shot to build a “public conversations app with 1bn+ people” – an opportunity that Twitter had but “hasn’t nailed”… Twitter claims in the cease-and-desist that Meta has poached dozens of former employees in the past year, some of whom “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information” and “many” of whom have “improperly” kept Twitter documents or electronic devices.