Today’s “Word of the Day” is “swansong“ and it is a noun and its meaning is “a metaphor used to refer to a final activity, gesture, effort or last performance given just before retirement/death. It was said to be that swans live a silent existence until the time of their death, when, with their last breath, they would sing a beautiful song.”
Example Sentence: The line from the famous song by Queen (Farrokh Bulsara), “Another One Bites the Dust”, appears to be the swansong for another airline in India. In the 1990s, an airline with promise, Damania Airways, went bust. This week, the Wadias declared insolvency for their airline, Go First, bringing down the curtains on another airline company.
This word is present in And another airline bites the dust and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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