Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Examples of this idiom:
- "Who'd like to step up to the plate and start working on this assignment?", asked the team leader.
- I don't mind stepping up to the plate for a lucrative project like this.
Meaning:
To take action; To do one's best; To volunteer.
Examples of this idiom:
- I can't afford a car anymore. Oil prices have gone through the roof!
- Statistics indicate the crime rate in our country has gone through the roof.
Meaning:
Very high; higher than expected (especially prices).
- The telecom company found different ways to turn around their business. They introduced five new products in a single month.
- This site teaches you how to turn around your business when it is failing.
Meaning:
To make a business profitable again; to go from not making profits to being profitable again;
- They had to work down to the wire to finish this metro railway project on time.
- If you don't put enough effort now, working down to the wire can cause a lot of stress later.
Meaning:
To work until the last minute; to work until just before the deadline;
- The project can't be delivered by this month-end. The company still needs to work out the kinks with their final stage.
- Drew is the only guy who could work out some kinks from this mess.
Meaning:
To solve the problems with; to work out solutions for; to get rid of some obstacles in;
- Bill is a yes man. Don't expect him to talk about the problem to Mary.
- Just 'cos I'm the boss doesn't mean you gotta agree. I don't want any one of you to be a 'yes man' type.
Meaning:
An employee who always agrees with the boss or does whatever the boss says.
Examples of this idiom:
- Sarah's uncle is an international business tycoon who wheels and deals all over the globe.
- We gotta reach a stage where we wheel and deal in every state to feel our oats.
Meaning:
To skillfully and aggressively make big plans with important business, usually to earn a lot of money
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