Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “deal a blow“ and its meaning is “to harm, upset, affect, afflict or shock someone/something very badly; hit someone/something very badly in order to cause harm”.
Example Sentence: South Asian governments on average spend just 1% of GDP on health and 2.5% on education. In comparison, the global average is 5.9% on health and 3.7% on education… Against this background, the COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed an additional 35 million people across South Asia into extreme poverty, dealt an unprecedented blow to the region’s human capital. Among its most woeful impacts is a rise in learning poverty, or the inability to read and understand a simple text by age 10.
This phrase is present in South Asia’s human capital is the resilience it needs and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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