e/Green shoots

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has gloss	eng: Green shoots is a term used colloquially and propagandistically to indicate signs of economic recovery during an economic downturn. It was first used in this sense by Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, during the 1991 Recession. At the time, Chancellor Lamont was criticized for "insensitivity". The phrase was used again by Baroness Vadera, former Business Minister of the UK in January, 2009 to refer to signs of economic recovery during the late-2000s recession, again to criticism from the media and opposition politicians The Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, made the first public use of the phrase by a Fed official in a March 15, 2009 interview with CBS 60 Minutes. Since February and March, it has been used increasingly in the media and by a number of commentators to refer to positive economic data and statistics during the late-2000s recession.
lexicalization	eng: Green shoots
instance of	(noun) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity metaphor