短语俚语
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to deliver the goods
to do well at your job, especially to fulfill
high expectations of you
EXAMPLE:
“We were delighted by the young new salesman
who made more sales than anyone else in his
first week on the job, proving to us that
he could really deliver the goods.”
to face the music
to take the consequences for one’s actions,
usually unpleasant consequences
EXAMPLE:
The sales manager had made all his successful
sales representatives so angry that they all
quit last week, and so he had to return to
meet his boss at headquarters and face the
music.
to flesh out a proposal
to give or to create a more complete description
of an idea
EXAMPLE:
“Our company’s president, Mr. Smith, liked
the new idea our engineering chief, Ms. Jones,
had suggested recently, and he asked her to
flesh out her proposal before it was presented
to our company’s board of directors.”
to get the pink slip
to get fired, or to get laid off (traditionally,
an official
notice of termination was printed on pink
paper.
EXAMPLE:
When the XYZ company’s sales fell in half
for the second
year in row, many of it s employees got the
pink slip.
to give away the farm
to enter a business deal as a seller in which
too much is given to the buyer
EXAMPLE:
“The desperate salesman dropped the price
of his products to make many deals, but his
boss worried that he was giving away the farm.”
to go the extra mile
to make an extra effort in making a deal
or providing service (from the Biblical proverb
“if someone asks you to walk one mile, walk
two miles”)
EXAMPLE:
“In order to provide the best customer service
our computer systems company always went the
extra mile and provided free installation
and user training at the customer’s worksite.”
to go belly-up
in business, to collapse; to go out of business
(“belly” means stomach, so going belly-up
means to turn on your back and float like
a dead fish)
EXAMPLE:
My brother’s company went belly-up last month
when its revenues were far below its monthly
debts, so now he’s looking for a job.
to have the inside track
to have a special advantage that helps you
win (in a race on a circular racecourse the
track closest to the middle is called the
“inside track” and is shorter than outer tracks)
EXAMPLE:
Because Mr. Jones had worked in our industry
for 20 years and knew all the customers and
their particular needs, he had the inside
track on getting the job as Vice President
of Sales at our company.
to hit the nail on the head
to say or to understand the heart of a problem,
issue or idea
EXAMPLE:
“The intelligent company president listened
carefully to our department’s concerns and
when he spoke we knew he understood the issues
exactly; he really hit the nail on the head.”
unemployment compensation
local government payments to a former worker
who has been fired (usually for six months)
EXAMPLE:
When the XYZ Company went out of business
and laid off its employees, they received
small unemployment compensation checks each
week that helped pay their bills until they
got new jobs at other companies.
user friendly
easy to operate (usually a computer term)
EXAMPLE
Built for home or business use, many new
computers with
graphical interface software are much more
user friendly than older computer systems
that only data processing professionals could
use effectively.
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