Office Idioms

Throw in the towel

• Start something new

• Give the best out of you

• Give up or surrender

• Finish something you've started

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Burn the midnight oil

• Wake up early

• Work until very late

• Cook at night

• No electricity, only candles

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Get the ball rolling

• Start a project

• Start a game

• Move something from place to place

• Switching on your car

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Hit the ground running

• Start a new project with energy

• Start to run, but very fast

• Kick the floor, as in when you're angry

• Speeding, when you're driving

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Cut to the chase

• Get something cut

• Go after somebody

• Grab a person

• Go straight to the point

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Think outside the box

• Try and resolve something physically

• Be more creative

• Target an individual

• They're all wrong

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Jump on the bandwagon

• Travel a lot

• Adopt a trend

• Start training something new

• Get on with something now, anything

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Keep someone in the loop

• To share something with someone

• To keep someone informed

• To care about someone

• To play with someone

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Push the envelope

• To get something done with pressure

• To go beyond your limits

• To fit something that initially didn't fit

• To get something done very quickly

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Read between the lines

• To miss the point of the conversation

• To start something

• To understand the real meaning of something

• To fall sleep

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