Business Language Enthusiast Gifts

'I want you to divest yourself of 35 pounds.'

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

"We need a best practice swim lane to leverage our core competency, move the needle outside the box, and open the kimono while keeping our ducks in a row. Can anyone give me a sustainable solution to more vertical effectiveness without getting too granula

"Here, we do not procrastinate, we 'table' things."

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

The Family Joules: Part 21

'Stick them up...'

Gingerbread Business Classes: Think Outside the Fox.

Henry the amazing talking dog.

He used to pass the buck, since being promoted to management he gets to call it delegating authority.

"Here comes a client I must speak to. Excuse me while I slip into some jargon."

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

"This is what we call a 'customer', or more accurately a 'potential profit centre.'"

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

Raphnrrf? Raphnrrf? Umpha? Frfee? Maamr? Pick.

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

"Sophia, will you agree to form a joint exploratory committee for marriage?"

'Your proposal is written with clarity and conviction. Send it up to legal for obfuscation.'

Turkey to human dictionary - 'Quiet!!! You don't realize what you're saying!'

'Give it to me straight, Doc... is it pronounceable?'

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

Shrewsbury - pronunciation