You know the sort of things that I meen. Ridiculous phrases and metaphors. Lets see how many we can come up with.

"It's all smoke and mirrors."

"We're all dancing round the camp fire and nobody wants to pick up a potato."

"We just need to sell the sizzle, not the sausage."

"We need a quick win" :rolleyes:

My client's MD recently confessed that he'd "had an epiphany."

****!

"Go and look at it and we'll touch base tomorrow"

"Let's get our ducks in a row"

"Let me take a view on that"

"We'll roll with it and see what turns out"


I'll think of some more in a bit....

'With the greatest respect to you' - yeah right!

'Put some more meet on the bone' <--- my boss's fave, and a damn fine buzz phrase it is too ;P

"It's not rocket science"

"In terms of..."

My favourite: "We need to draw a line under it and move on" :rolleyes:

"Think outside the box" and
"Let's park that thought for now".
A few months ago, someone sent me a game of "Meeting Bingo" with loads of these on. Unfortunately I don' have it anymore.

Steve :cool:

http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/bbbingo.html

That's the fella.

Generally speaking :rolleyes:

In theory [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

LOL @ "Let's get our ducks in a row"

Is that rhyming slang for something? ;)

Fsck knows .... one of our directors uses it all the time...

"Let's pick the low hanging fruit" is another

Steve

I avoid meetings like this otherwise I have the urge to kill people :D

Anyone who says "touch base" in my office is liable to an instant kicking before leaving through the window.

Makes me cringe just typing it. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

If at first you do fail






Become a manager

"At least we're all singing from the same hymn sheet" :D ;)

Best one I've ever heard (and I really heard this ;))

"You're making a badger's bottom of this" :eek:

I work with the king of sh1t one liners and the guy is the biggest prick ive ever had the mis fortune to work with

"Take it steady"
"Step up to the plate"
"keep me in the loop"
"im paddeling this canoe alone"
"are we all singing from the same hymn book"

and numerous other ive forgotten

what a C*NT

"Nailing jelly to the wall!

Funkii Munkii - Report to me first thing in the morning to pick up your p45 :D:D:D:D:D

Actual ones our PM uses:

"Lets push the boat out and see what comes back"

"We're behind the 8-ball here" eh?

and my personal favourite..........

"Our arse is out the window on this one" :D

He's got so many we started doing what we call "Barlow Bingo" in meetings (his surname is Barlow). First to get 5 phrases has to introduce on of his classics back into the meeting to indicate a "house" to the other competitors.
:D :D give it a try - great fun.

Our CEO...

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it piss..."


Baffled silence!!!!!

My favourite, said in a meeting with Compaq recently was

"Let's make sure we're coming on the same digestive here, shall we?"


priceless