http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-02/office-language-corporate-speak-how-to-get-a-payrise/9298828
Kate Burridge has some suggestions for fresh phrases to take back to the workplace to replace the tired old moving forward, hitting the ground running, drilling down, etc.
Here are some Gert will be adding to her vocabulary:
With saucy rigging or saucy oars – venturing out into unknown territory, taking a risk
Being loaded for bears – ready for anything
Through-seeking – the old English equivalent of drilling down
Ferking forthward instead of going forward. But take care – ferk is the origin of the f-word. So I suppose you could add ferking up.
And a few of Gert’s own suggestions from Middle English:
To bite the bone – cut costs, downsize
A bear-bag – a nobody, a minor employee (see bite the bone)
Wruxeled – “adorned”, but the perfect word to describe the balance sheets after the accountants have worked their tax dodges.
Wruxeled by a novice could explain my tax returns….. chuckle.
Leslie
You have the wrong accountant, Leslie.
But I seldom make a mistake???
But are you up to all the lurks and dodges that would enable you to pay just about no tax? that’s the kind of accountant you need.
Nope, I’m willing to pay my share.
SAD! as Trump would say. You’ll never get to be a multimillionaire.
That would have headaches all its own.
“Loaded for bear” is a reasonably frequently used phrase in Alaska, because people often are on their way out to look for a bear, or do do something else but knowing they might well encounter a bear.
Wruxeled takes the cake though. It’s going to be a little hard to weave it into a conversation, but I’m putting my mind to it.
One problem we don’t have in Aus. We don’t even have to go loaded for wombat.