Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is turn one’s back on and its meaning is “ignore, reject, abandon, give up, renounce“.
Example Sentence: Young Indians – but also their mothers and grandmothers – are looking up new dishes on blogs, YouTube, TikTok and WhatsApp. They didn’t all learn to cook at a young age: they may not have been interested; or their mothers may have been terrible cooks; or perhaps they were actively discouraged from entering the kitchen and told to focus on getting good grades instead. They may have learned later in life thanks to a newfound culinary passion or for reasons of practicality, or perhaps as a way of reconnecting to a culture that they turned their back on in their youth.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Why do Indian recipes always have to come from some mythic grandmother? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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