Blue Ticks To Wet Lettuce: 10 Phrases That Defined 2022

One of the "words of the year" in Britain and Australia, the phrase refers to doing the bare minimum at work.

In a year of extraordinary upheaval, from the war in Ukraine to catastrophic natural disasters, AFP looks at some of the words and phrases that have defined 2022.

Armageddon

With the war in Ukraine and increasingly strident threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the spectre of nuclear warfare is stalking the globe for the first time in decades.

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" in 1962, US President Joe Biden said in October.