Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “pin one’s hopes on“ and it is a phrase meaning “rely on, depend on, have confidence in, believe in, put one’s faith in“.
Example Sentence: Even if the technologies on which we pin our hopes for the future deliver as expected and do not lead to much collateral damage – both of which are huge assumptions – they will not have fixed our mindsets. This is a crisis of culture and politics, not of science and technology.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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