Company in trouble

Give someone the green light

• they give you permission to do something

• to prohibit something

• to walk along

• to stop someone

See something in black and white

• To go to extremes

• to believe that there is only one possible judgement to be made about a situation

• Not to be able to see colours

• To say yes or no

Get off the ground

• For a rocket to start a trip

• Not to be successful

• Start or cause to start happening successfully

• To be successful

Run short

• To be a short project

• To have a lot of something

• To lose money

• To near the end of a supply of something

To be in red

• To be in debt

• To be dressed in red

• To be scared

• To have a lot of money

Mean business

• To be working

• To be grave and resolute; to be serious about what one is promising or proposing to do

• To be bad

• To do business

Take a nosedive

• To have a slow decline

• To go up

• to suddenly and rapidly begin to decline

• To stop raising

A handout

• Help

• A part of the house

• A booklet

• a portion of food, clothing, or money given to or as if to a beggar

In the pipeline

• it has already been planned or begun.

• Waiting to start

• Stopped

• In the process of starting

Cut corners

• Do more things than necessary

• do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.

• Not to do the necessary things

• To cut the budget