Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “yesterday’s man“ and its meaning is “a person, especially a politician, whose career is over (i.e. he reached the peak of his popularity and it is now gradually declining)”.
Example Sentence: Choosing to put himself in the spotlight this early on is risky; stars cannot keep rising forever and, especially in the fickle world of politics, it doesn’t take much to become yesterday’s man. It also seems worth mentioning that the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (Chief Finance Minister) Rishi Sunak’s strategy is a novel (new) one; although many MPs have relatively high-profile social media accounts, none have pushed it quite as far as he has.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Rishi Sunak has turned into a social media star, but who is he trying to influence? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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