Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “at a stroke“ and its meaning is “immediately, at once, straight away, right away, instantaneously, suddenly”.
Example Sentence: Just two months after Biden took the oath, sober observers of the White House are branding him a transformational president. The comparisons to Franklin D Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson have already begun…The foundation stone is the $1.9tn Covid relief package Biden signed into law a fortnight ago, which has seen $1,400 payments land in the bank accounts of more than 100 million Americans. But this is about far more than a short-term stimulus effort. One estimate calculates that the move will, at a stroke, cut child poverty by half.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Joe Biden is giving left parties the world over a masterclass in how to use power and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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