Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is wax and wane and its meaning is “get bigger and get smaller alternatively; grow stronger and grow weaker alternatively; increase and decrease alternatively”.
Example Sentence: India’s war against terrorism is its own. We need to depend on ourselves to defeat this scourge; support from outside will wax and wane depending on the global situation. We have to steel ourselves to take on this challenge as a nation, united.
This phrase is present in India’s ‘new normal’ deconstructed and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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