Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “take leave of one’s senses“ and it is a phrase meaning “go mad, go crazy, become insane, lose one’s mind“.
Example Sentence: For the veteran British financier Jeremy Grantham, Tesla is the stock that proves the market has taken leave of its senses. The current market capitalisation (value of a company on the stock market) of $600bn amounts to $1.25m for each electric car sold, compared with $9,000 a car for General Motors. “What has 1929 (effects of Stock Market Crash & The Great Depression) got to equal that?” he asks.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Are soaring markets and house prices an ‘epic bubble’ about to pop?, and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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