Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “wreak havoc” and its meaning is “to cause a lot of damage; to bring about a widespread destruction; to give rise to a lot of trouble”.
Example Sentence: The first atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese civilians in August 1945. They came with the terrifying news that humans had acquired the power to make small, short-lived suns on Earth, but only to wreak havoc. George Orwell wrote about that in his 1945 essay You and the Atom Bomb, in which he coined the term “cold war”. He did foresee something like the climate crisis: “But meanwhile man’s power over Nature is steadily increasing.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Heal the nation before healing the rest of the world and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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