Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is a slap on the wrist and its meaning is “a mild or light punishment; reprimand, rebuke, warning, scolding”.
Example Sentence: Twitter labelled two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets misleading. Twitter’s slap on the wrist was enough to drive Mr. Trump into a tirade (verbal attack) on Twitter, in which he claimed that the political right in the U.S. was being censored.
This phrase is present in The Hindu International Page article Trump ‘order’ to target social media and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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