One would have thought a well educated man like Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS (he went to Balliol) would have known this expression means a quiet hiatus, a peaceful centre in the midst of a storm, not the raging chaos he went on to describe.
When a prominent person gets it so wrong and publicly, others copy them, as they have with "prodigal" which is now erroneously use to mean returning.
Don't these people have dictionaries?
Tommy Robinson arrested. Police using their existing powers
What were the first ever records that you bought and when?
Lack of public toilets in towns.