a new broom sweeps clean »
New management will often make radical changes.
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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down »
An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.
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all ears »
Awaiting an explanation.
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autem dipper »
Anabaptist.
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avant la lettre »
An example of a term before the term was coined. Describing a term used anachronistically.
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balance the books »
To put or keep any closed or conservative system or its analysis in balance.
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balancing act »
An effort to manage many conflicting or competing items or interests.
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beat Banaghan »
An Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories, or of something which is amazing and remarkable.
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bench jockey »
A baseball term for a player, coach or manager who is annoying and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench with verbal repartee.
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blame Canada »
A catch phrase for shifting attention away from a serious social issue by laying responsibility with Canada.
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brown bread »
Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
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cat that ate the canary »
A person who appears self-satisfied or smug, especially while concealing something mischievous, prohibited, or private.
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cat that ate the canary »
A person whose appearance and behavior suggest guilt mixed with other qualities, such as satisfaction or feigned nonchalance.
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coug it »
To suddenly lose a contest through reversal of fortune, mistakes, or bad judgment. The phrase is analogous to "blow it", or "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory".
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cure all »
panacea
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do something with mirrors »
To jokingly pretend that one did something using magic mirrors, that one is a magician; a joking explanation of the fantastic or the unexplained.
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do without »
To manage despite the lack of something.
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drink from a firehose »
To take a small amount from an enormous, hard-to-manage quantity.
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get by »
To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimum level.
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go bananas »
To go mad.
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go in the out door »
To engage in anal sex.
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go over »
To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
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gongoozle »
To leisurely watch the passage of boats, from the bank of a canal, lock or bridge.
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granary »
A fertile, grain-growing region.
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granary »
A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
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hold down »
To continue, to hold and to manage well.
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in other words »
Stated or interpreted another way; introduces an explanation.
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keep up with »
To manage to remain beside or just behind that is moving away from one.
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keep up with »
To manage to follow .
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managerial inbreeding »
Bad management, caused by managers making poor selection choices in recruitment, rewards, and promotions of the staff that report to them, leading to another generation of managers who lack the necessary skill sets to reward and promote the most effective staff.
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miner's canary »
A caged bird kept caged in mines because its demise provided a warning of dangerous levels of toxic gases.
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miner's canary »
Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
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miners' canary »
A caged bird kept caged in mines because its demise provided a warning of dangerous levels of toxic gases.
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miners' canary »
Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
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noarch »
Short for "no architecture". It is a term used mainly in package management systems to mark packages which are architecture independent. Such packages usually contain graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.
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off one's dot »
Off one's rocker; bananas; mad.
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off the chain »
Crazy and exciting; delirious and wild. By analogy to a frenetic dog when unleashed.
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on board »
It's a good idea, but let's see if we can get a few more of the management team on board.
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put down »
To administer euthanasia to, as an animal too old or ill to cure.
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quicumque vult »
The Athanasian Creed.
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run into the ground »
To mismanage to the point of ruin.
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scissorbill »
And railroad term for someone who refused to join the union or who openly colluded with management to thwart the union.
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scrape through »
To marginally manage to progress.
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seagull manager »
A manager who comes into the workplace or office only on occasion, especially when a problem arises or to criticize or critique employees.
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second banana »
A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.
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second banana »
A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.
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see a man about a horse »
A message signaling one needs to go missing for a short while, for any reason, without giving a real explanation.
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smoke and mirrors »
A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description.
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snake oil »
A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
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soft shoe »
A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone.
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spin doctor »
news manager
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take something in stride »
To cope with something without much effort; to accept or manage something well.
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throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick »
Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.2001, And still no one is shouting stop. read in The Kingdom archives at [1] on 02 Nov 06,Many team managers are of the philosophy that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. They believe that team preparation is all about physical fitness. They run the players into the ground and they believe they will be "flying on the day".2001, Robert McCrum, Let them eat cake, in The Observer 16 Dec 01, read on Guardian Unlimited site at [2] on 02 Nov 06,Australian publishing boomed and in the past 10 years the country's literary culture has undergone a mini golden age, capped by Carey's triumph at the 2001 Booker Prize. As one Australian arts administrator said to me many years ago: 'Listen, mate, if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.'2001, Chris Collin, Re: 2-cp speys on The Strathspey Server mailing list archive at [3] on 02 Nov 06,I am finding that "if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick". It doesn't always work of course (especially on the nights when the class is mostly the beginners), but the class seems to thrive on the challange.2005, Ray Craft (poster on The right scale blog), Fitzhooie and his Burden, read at [4] on 02 Nov 06,Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.2005, Sean Kelleher, Spike Milligan: His part in our downfall in Business 07 Aug 05, read at [5] on 02 Nov 06,As long as there is negligible regulation and enforcement anyone can actually try and do the job...Weak regulation allows the industry to build strategies on full time recruitment. The theory goes: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.c2005, Everything You've Learned About Marketing Is Wrong, read on LINC Performance website at [6] on 02 Nov 06,They have the money to continue to believe in the repetition side of the equation. You throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. But it still isn
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tin god »
An individual that abuses or exceeds his authority over others, frequently in petty ways; for example a low-level manager in situational comedies and other entertainment.
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top banana »
The boss, the leader.
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top banana »
The principal comedian in a vaudeville or burlesque show.
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white on rice »
A descriptive analogy of closeness. See like white on rice.
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who shot John »
A long and involved explanation; a thing of which an explanation would be long and involved.
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winkle out »
Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.
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