- "the view from 30,000 feet"
- "not in my wheelhouse"
- "can we table this?"
- "let's circle back"
- "target the low-hanging fruit"
- "slice of the proverbial pie"
- "I'm just spitballing here"
- "above my pay grade"
- "not to put too fine a point on it"
- "where the rubber meets the road"
- "we don't have a dog in this fight"
- "whose ox is being gored"
- "nature of the beast"
- "whole hog"
- "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
- "get our ducks in a row"
- "let's put a pin in that"
- "moving parts"
- "pull the trigger"
- "not let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
- "catch as catch can"
- "I want to cabin that"
- "six of one, half dozen of the other"
- "distinction without a difference"
- "drink the Kool Aid"
- "begs the question" (incorrect use only, since I still don't understand how to use it correctly)
- "deliverables"
- "make sure we're comparing apples to apples"
- "colloquy"
- "death by a thousand cuts"
- "the juice isn't worth the squeeze"
- "good enough for government work"
- "bandwidth" (metaphorical use only)
- "silos" (metaphorical use only)
- "get our hands dirty"
- "doesn't pencil"
- "not the way to run the railroad"
- "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered"
- "tough nut to crack"
- "get an earful"
- "I was listening to a TED talk the other day...."
- "inside baseball"
- "do the heavy lifting"
- "know enough to be dangerous"
- "thread the needle"
- "move the needle"
- "nail it down"
- "hammer it out"
- "put this to bed"
- "lost ball in tall grass"
- "which way the wind is blowing"
- "a short pencil is better than a long memory"
- "pain points?"
- "leaving money on the table"
- "hard sledding"
- "baloney"
- "here for the right reasons" (a rare bored meeting/bachelor nation crossover phrase!)
- "you don't want to get drunk on your own whiskey"
- "the frog in the punch bowl"
All of these are things I've heard someone say in an actual meeting.
Soon I will turn these into bingo cards, so everybody in the meeting can play along. In order to win, you must get five in a row then correctly use the word "iterations" during the meeting.