• "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!)

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.

jan 31 2013 ∞
jun 12 2023 +