Cordelia ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
And, lord, we use "best practice" all the time.
We use "Best Management Practices" (BMPs) all the damn time. Those are processes you implement to limit environmental harm, like washing heavy machinery at a distance from the shoreline, or establishing spill prevention protocols, dampening the ground before work to prevent kicking up dust, that sort of thing. Useful jargon!
My cafeteria has a Caesar salad "with choice of dressing". Weird.
It's not a Caesar without Caesar dressing.
Speaking of salads, I had a great one last night: mixed greens with roasted beet, goat cheese, Persian cucumber, a leftover crab cake, and a simple lemon-garlic-olive oil-parmesan dressing. NOM. I may have to do it again tonight, although I ate all the cucumber.
Ducks in a row has been around forever, so I really wouldn't consider it business jargon. I worked with a guy who said he had to get "all his ducks in a heap."
Caesar salad "with choice of dressing".
So...romaine lettuce in a bowl?
Among the ones I've never heard: "open the kimono". And I am *so* glad about that, because I would not know where to look or who to glare at first.
Oh lord yes. My boss is inordinately fond of the phrase "Lift up our/their skirts" for pretty much any information-sharing. Makes me cringe every time.
What is a Persian Cucumber?
I think, most of the time, it's not the jargon that's the problem, it's people who don't know what it mean using jargon inappropriately.
Not that I made it through the slideshow.
What is a Persian Cucumber?
It's smaller than a regular cucumber, not waxed, very tasty and crisp.
it's people who don't know what it mean using jargon inappropriately.
As exhibited in several of the captions in that slideshow.
I think, most of the time, it's not the jargon that's the problem, it's people who don't know what it mean using jargon inappropriately.
When I hear someone say they'll throw something over the wall and then circle back, but we should take it offline because they're in the middle of a fire drill, it's the jargon that's the problem.