Sunday, January 29, 2023

English idioms phrases to be used for work and business meetings

 1. Get your foot in the door

    Starting as intern will help get your foot in the door.


2. Thrown in the deep end

    I was thrown in the deep end with my first assignment as a developer.


3. A steep learning curve

    If you trying to learn block chain technology with no prior experience it can be a steep learning curve.


4. Cut corners { To do it quickly without due diligence}

    Tomorrow is the audit and we don't want to cut corners . We need everything done by the book!


5. Touch base

     Can we touch base before we kick off any design work for this payment gateway system.


6. Cut to the chase

   We all know why we are here, let's cut to the chase and get onto point without further ado.


7. Rock the boat {Upset people}

    Lately she is going too many things right now, I don't want to rock the boat by telling her about my resignation.


8. Put out fires {Extinguish Suppress Stamp out abate}

    Due to recent software updates we introduce platform issues online, my weekend was spend just to put out fires to resolve them.


9. Think Outside the box { Think creatively}

    Mr Tweet , Elon Musk has started making the Twitter a better product by thinking outside the box.


10. A blessings in disguise {that seems unlucky turns out to be good}

    The feature that seems not much value add however it turns out to be a blessings in disguise when customer posted a feedback to have them in next product releases.


11. The best of both worlds 

    It is always good to have full stack developer in a development team that offers the best of both worlds in terms of backend and frontend devs .


12. Give someone a benefit of doubt 

    I gave a developer a benefit of doubt to go-ahead with the fix in production without user acceptance testing due to the nature of high priority incident.


13. Out of hand

    The system is down for almost an hour , customers are complaining and situation is getting out of hand.


14. to get someone on board

    It's a great idea but you need to get steering committee on board if you want it to make it happen.


15. to jump ship {not to stay with current situation and jump to avoid}

    If I got the same job with higher salary and work life balance I would rather jump ship!


16. smooth sailing 

    We have best talent in our team and they ensure smooth sailing during every single release we have so far.


17. a sinking ship 

    Elon Musk left Tesla as he realized he is on board a sinking ship


18. flat out

    I will be flat out completely as this is the end of the financial years.


19. train of thoughts

   What was I up to, sorry I lost the train of thoughts .

   What was I talking about sorry I lost the train of thoughts.


20. get back on track

   We need to pull our socks up and get back on track before we miss our delivery deadline.


21. to bank on

   I'm banking on my team to meet deadline well before time this year.


22. to brush up on

   I'm brushing up on business English to win over my stakeholder next month.


23. to bring something to the table

   What have you brought to the table.

    The great thing about me, I bring a years of marketing experience to the table.


24. to bring up

   In status meeting tomorrow , I'll going to bring up the blockers we faced yesterday.


25. to turn down

    I turned it down the offers made to me last year as they were not promising enough the position I'm looking for.


26. Call it a day

    Okay, it is time to call it a day, we'll revisit and go through the agenda once again tomorrow.


27. off the top of my head

    Off the top of my head , I would say today's sale touch 90% more than as usual.


28. at the end of the day

   At the end of the day, all that matters is we are all together.


29. to get your head around something

   I need more time to get my head around this subject to understand it more in detail.


30. in the loop

   Please keep me in the loop for any latest update on upcoming series.


31. take something for granted

   Please keep me in the loop for any latest update on upcoming series.


32. Having said that

   Please keep me in the loop for any latest update on upcoming series.


33. Have something in mind

   Please keep me in the loop for any latest update on upcoming series.


34. keep an eye on

   We need to keep an eye on recent production issues otherwise we are on a verge of putting out fire during weekend.


35. turns out to be

  After Hindenberg research report, Adani's scam turns out to be a big corporate con in the history.


36. by no means

  Due to recession by no means I can expect promotion this year.


37. keep in touch

   Nice talking to you, lets keep in touch.


38. Contrary to popular belief

   Contrary to popular belief, Prime Minister of Australia Albanese is indeed a good politician we got till this date.


39. To boil down to something

   We are unable to buy car this year as it all boils down to inflation that making it worse.





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