Business idioms

Creating an obstacle or delay in progress or production

• Cut your losses

• Cause a bottleneck

• Call it a day

Make someone who you haven't met before feel more relaxed

• Get on board

• Cut corners

• Break the ice

net income or loss

• the bottom line

• cause a bottleneck

• across the board

finish for today

• break the ice

• get on board

• call it a day

Be ready to participate or be included in something

• break the ice

• cut your losses

• get on board

stop doing something that is already failing in order to reduce the amount of time or money that is being wasted on it

• cut your losses

• cut corners

• the bottom line

save money or effort by finding cheaper or easier ways to do something

• across the board

• cut corners

• break the ice

applying to everybody with no exceptions

• break the ice

• call it a day

• across the board