Hey there I'm Soumya from GSFOCUS! I hope that you and your loved ones are holding up okay at the moment. These are some really tough times that we're living through but I hope that through the frustration and the sadness, you've been able to stay positive and keep busy at home.
Hope You will use these idioms next time in your work place!
Today I want to share slangs/ idioms with you that will test what you know and challenge you to explore some new English words and push your vocabulary further. And thank you for staying home and saving lives. I'm thrilled that you're here to learn with me. Let's get started!
Work place slangs/ idioms
Here are some idioms and the simple explanation when to use and what the exact meaning.
1. Back to the salt mines ---> Get back to the work.
For example, team members are diverted to some other activities then the team leader can say get back to the work we are out of time then that time he can use this short idiom "Back to the salt mines".
2. Back to the drawing board ---> To start all over again.
If previous plan failed so you have to start all over again so you got back to the drawing board.
For example, I work really hard for a project but my boss rejected it so, I have to go back to the drawing board.
3. Bust one's buns ---> To work hard.
It's sounds funny. Rather than saying that I'm so tired because I'm really work hard. Well, its nice way to saying i have busted my bun's to the entire week on the project.
4. Blue collar worker ---> Manual labor.
This slang usually work in lot of manual labor. May the person in to working under mining, construction or oil fields. We also have pink collar labor and white collar labor.
5. Don't make waves ---> Don't make any trouble.
It is a negative idiom. It means that don't make trouble in depth make sure you don't create any difficulties.
For example, you are new person in the company. your colleague comes to you and says "Hey you are working with me on the project Make sure don't make any waves".
It is really helpful
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