🗓️ Idiom: Facing Headwinds (v)
💬 Meaning
- To experience difficulties that slow progress.
- It describes challenges that make moving forward harder, especially during change.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The company is facing headwinds due to rising material costs.
- Our expansion plans are facing headwinds from new regulations.
- The project team faced headwinds from stakeholders who didn’t support the change.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from sailing and aviation, where a headwind (a wind blowing towards you) slows down your movement. In business, “facing headwinds” means dealing with factors that make progress more difficult.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
We are __________ with declining sales and increased competition.
Answer
facing headwinds
2. Choose the correct meaning of “facing headwinds”:
A) Moving forward easily
B) Ignoring problems
C) Dealing with strong challenges
D) Finishing early
Answer
C) Dealing with strong challenges
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“The company is struggling due to several external challenges.” → Change the sentence using: facing headwinds
Answer
The company is facing headwinds due to several external challenges.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
