Business Idioms Flashcards

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a person who enjoys their work and likes their employer

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a happy camper

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2
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a brilliant young person that has quickly become succesful

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Whizz-kid

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3
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a manager that only makes a lot of fuss and contributes nothing

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a seagull manager

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4
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a person responsible for for carrying out commands and communicating messages from top-level executives

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a spear carrier

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5
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a person that does not need training because of their previous experience

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plug-and-play employee

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6
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a junior assistant that follows their superior around

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a pilot fish

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7
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a person that changes job often because their are a desirable employee

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a free worker

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8
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person obsessed with the internet

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a nethead

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9
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an influential and dynamic person that makes things happen

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A mover and a shaker

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10
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a person who works a second job on the side, usually in the grey economic zone

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a moonlighter

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11
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a person that does a lot of small tasks in the office

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a Man Friday

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12
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a person that has a lot of good ideas

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an idea hampster

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13
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a very well performing person

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a heavy lifter

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14
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an employee that comes back to the workplace after having quit the job before

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a boomerang worker

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15
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a person that is lazy and does the least amount of work possible

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a goldbricker

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16
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person that is really good with technology

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a digithead

17
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A person that mostly relies on their instincts and intuitions rather that rationalization

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a hip shooter

18
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a reply that is sent to more people than was mentioned to

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a leaky reply

19
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to state an ultimatum for enforcing somebody to leave

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to shape up or ship out

20
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to butter someone up

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to kiss up to

21
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to meet somebody with enthusiasm

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to glad-hand

22
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a day where the employees are allowed to dress informally

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a dressdown day

23
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compliment

24
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working only when somebody is watching

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eye service

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reducing the size of the company without taking into consideration how it will effect it
dumbsizing
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an offer to persuade someone to stay at a job
a sweetener
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a overview without getting in to specifics
helicopter view
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boring and detailed work
nut and bolt work
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a job that is normally done by a woman, especially a young one
A pink-collar job
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A person who is assigned a lot of different tedious types of work for a low pay
dogsbody
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When an employee gets very angry at work as a result of something bad happening
work rage
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To be left out of the decision process
to be left out of the loop
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work that offers the same amount of money for less effort than another similar job is often known as
A cushy number
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to criticize somebody in writing
to pencil-whip them