Business Idioms

Question 1

a person who enjoys their work and likes their employer

Answer 1

a happy camper

Question 2

a brilliant young person that has quickly become succesful

Answer 2

Whizz-kid

Question 3

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

Answer 3

a seagull manager

Question 4

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

Answer 4

a spear carrier

Question 5

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

Answer 5

plug-and-play employee

Question 6

a junior assistant that follows their superior around

Answer 6

a pilot fish

Question 7

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

Answer 7

a free worker

Question 8

person obsessed with the internet

Answer 8

a nethead

Question 9

an influential and dynamic person that makes things happen

Answer 9

A mover and a shaker

Question 10

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

Answer 10

a moonlighter

Question 11

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

Answer 11

a Man Friday

Question 12

a person that has a lot of good ideas

Answer 12

an idea hampster

Question 13

a very well performing person

Answer 13

a heavy lifter

Question 14

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

Answer 14

a boomerang worker

Question 15

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

Answer 15

a goldbricker

Question 16

person that is really good with technology

Answer 16

a digithead

Question 17

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

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a hip shooter

Question 18

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

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a leaky reply

Question 19

to state an ultimatum for enforcing somebody to leave

Answer 19

to shape up or ship out

Question 20

to butter someone up

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to kiss up to

Question 21

to meet somebody with enthusiasm

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to glad-hand

Question 22

a day where the employees are allowed to dress informally

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a dressdown day

Question 23

compliment

Answer 23

ear candy

Question 24

working only when somebody is watching

Answer 24

eye service

Question 25

reducing the size of the company without taking into consideration how it will effect it

Answer 25

dumbsizing

Question 26

an offer to persuade someone to stay at a job

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a sweetener

Question 27

a overview without getting in to specifics

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helicopter view

Question 28

boring and detailed work

Answer 28

nut and bolt work

Question 29

a job that is normally done by a woman, especially a young one

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A pink-collar job

Question 30

A person who is assigned a lot of different tedious types of work for a low pay

Answer 30

dogsbody

Question 31

When an employee gets very angry at work as a result of something bad happening

Answer 31

work rage

Question 32

To be left out of the decision process

Answer 32

to be left out of the loop

Question 33

work that offers the same amount of money for less effort than another similar job is often known as

Answer 33

A cushy number

Question 34

to criticize somebody in writing

Answer 34

to pencil-whip them