Expressions in the office
Here I wanted to compose examples for these frecuent idioms in the office. I dont actually know which of them are understandable in each spoken english country, but I tried to practice with them.
I hope to receive some corrections o suggestions,
Many thanks
1. To be on the same page:
The director needs the architect and civil engineer´s plans be on the same page, so that the clients don’t feel any contradiction in the explanation.
2. To be up to scratch:
The new assistant seems to be very smart. Surely she will be up to scratch in a few days.
3. By the book:
Human resource department has a mistake in the operator profile. They are prefering creative personalities than workers who develop the job by the book.
4. Cut corners:
If the cashier is doing things to cut corners, he will not be long time in the company
5. Cut throat:
The cut throat tourism world is regularly putting new rules and normativities to follow for keeping the high standard of the services.
6. The elephant in the room:
Nobody is brave to say the trades inside the political movements. This is the elephant in the room.
7. The interview was a glass ceiling for the women candidates
(any suggestions for it?)
8. To learn the ropes:
(any suggestions for it?)
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#1-2 are perfect as is
3. By the book:
Human resource department has made a mistake in the operator profile. They are prefering looking for creative personalities rather than workers who develop do the job by the book.
4. Cut corners:
If the cashier is doing things to cut corners, he will not be long time in the company. ("If the cashier is cutting corners he won't last long." is more natural.)
5. Cut throat:
The cut throat tourism world industry is regularly putting out new rules and normativities guidelines to follow for keeping in order to keep the a high standard of the services.
6. The elephant in the room:
Nobody is brave enough to say the trades inside the political movements truth in politics. This is That's the elephant in the room.
7. The interview was a glass ceiling for the women candidates
(any suggestions for it?) Hillary Clinton is breaking the last glass ceiling in politics. - or - You'll do fine until you hit the glass ceiling.
8. To learn the ropes:
(any suggestions for it?) You'll never learn the ropes if you don't show up to work. - or - She's learning the ropes (i.e. doing a good job).
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Your information has been very useful to me.
Thank you very much
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For number 2 Up to snuff is more common for me, but they mean the same thing.
For #8 Learning the ropes just means learning things about the job or any task.
Ex: "I see its your first day, I'll show you the ropes. Every morning you report to this room for a briefing. Use this log to record your sales."
If you are working in investing you will often hear "provide more color on that" during conference calls and quarterly/annual reports. It means more detail is desired on a topic.
Ex: "Could you provide more color on the effect of the merger on the overall expansion plan."
Are you in business? If you are we can have good conversations. Even though we have basic abilities in Spanish and English me and my economist language partner from Spain have fascinating conversations.
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