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Pakistan's climate catastrophe

Learning English from the News

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Monsoon on Sterroids

Chief is a word often used in newspaper headlines to mean the head of an organization. He has described this monsoon as on sterroids. Sterroids are used by sportspeople illegally to gain an unfair advantage. So if we describe something, in this case, a monsoon, as on steroids, we mean it's a far more extreme, a strong aversion.

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