Business English Idioms

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• Stake danger risk double check figures
• Book company policy law legitimate business
• Day call stop working finish reviewing figures tomorrow
• Short achieve partial success planned sell million quarter
• Cut corners cheapest easiest clients demand luxury items
• Hours day week buying excellent product customer service
• Plan game strategy beat high inflation low product
• Drain informal totally lost wasted economy go  control
• Roof prices figures reach extreme unexpected heights unemployment
• Driver's seat control situation bill's expect major improvements
• Ahead curve advanced competition company fiber optics
• Tough break unfortunate client rejected big project
• Back square beginning client simply hated project brings
• Backroom deal agreement made secretly tax reform important
• One's back knowledge deal people talking
• Catch guard surprise interviewer's questions
• Change pace routine smart tv bring refreshing
• Market corner dominate apple cornered smartphone
• Cut-throat intense aggressive merciless i work  cut-throat  business
• Rough diamond special polish find easy recognize employees
• Easy easily gained lost hard remain billionaire canada
• Fifty-fifty divided equally splitted profits 
• Ground start beginning scratch fire rebuild plant
• Ground project start business days
• Foot door get/have one's low-level position plan advance
• Give pat back good job team finding software
• Thumbs give something  deny approval senior management gave
• Thumbs give approve manager gave hire coordinator
• Broke bankrupt private banks made bad decisions
• Extra mile expect encouraged team attract customers
• Gray area undefined easily categorized today some  project
• Hands tied one's control situation decision-making power
• Hit nail head correctly comments compliance problems
• Red operating loss oil prices investors hopeful deal
• Eye ball one's focus concentrate achieve cash flow
• Straw limit one's patience lied sales performance
• Learn ropes basics this demo project users
• Long shot risky bet remote possibility step landing
• Lose ground market share competitor lost countries
• Brainer easy obvious decision carry business cards
• Strings attached expecting return product money back
• Fly work approved barcelona york rome
• Roll succeded times row broke sales records management
• Ball alert aware accident prevention lightly
• Page control situation aware report update team
• Loop select group john limiting chances advance career
• Loop aware select group stronger presence
• Pink slip fired end day
• Bar raise increase standard sarah raised performance significantly. 
• Read lines understand communicated directly openly intuition required
• Rock boat problems risk profitable contracts
• Circles run repeating action brings results stop act
• Safe bet happen made app development mobile devices. 
• Nature intutitively times presenting large portfolio
• Eye agree person managers issue
• Ties sever end relationship week company announced severed
• Shoot deny reject shot weak proposal partner
• Sky's limit possibilities endless virtual reality
• Small talk conversation unimportant topics discuss five-year forecast
• Smooth sailing clear when success achieved difficulties negotiation
• Snail mail traditional opposed e-mail can send invoices electronically
• One's ground stand position decision credit-risk director stood
• Wrong start foot time company asks build mobile
• Lying accept unpleasant fighting back customers price increase
• Bull horns directly confront difficult situation sustainable effective
• Talk convince talked customers testing product days
• Talk convince boss talked hiring extra staff
• Elephant room big controversial obvious issue talk brings
• Big plans goals successful people act
• Towel throw quit threw postponed project time
• Arm twist someone's make you're  twisting i agree
• Table secretly illegally policy strictly forbids payments
• Air undecided i candidates the
• Uphill battle hard achieve bringing product market significant
• Upper hand advantage negotiations someone
• White collar office worker jobs increasingly performed primarily
• Win-win situation result pleases parts improve terms achieve
• Word mouth gossip spread spoken communication social media
• Writing wall clues negative happen david abruptly announced
• Man agrees superiors signed who
• Rails uncontrolled unacceptable labor negotiations asked adjustment

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