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🛑BUSINESS IDIOMS
🔷Golden opportunity
a chance to do something that is likely to be successful and rewarding
👉This is one golden opportunity we must not waste.
🔷Sell like hotcakes
To be sold quickly and in large quantities.
👉This record has been selling like hotcakes—I can't keep it in stock!
🔷Household name
a person or thing that is well known by the public.
👉"he'd never become a household name, unlike his famous younger brother"
🔷Put/ Throw a spanner in the works (informal.)
to cause something to not go as planned
👉We were ready to start the project when the bank threw a spanner in the works by denying the loan.
🔷A hands-on approach
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions
👉She's very much a hands-on manager.
👉A hands-on approach to the music itself has been lacking until now.
🔷Make a name for oneself
become famous
👉"by the time he was thirty-five, he had made a name for himself as a successful railway contractor"
🔷Corner the market
If a company corners the market in a particular type of product, it is more successful than any other company at selling the product
👉They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the world.
🔷The bottom line
the final line in the accounts of a company or organization, stating the total profit or loss that has been made
👉How will the rise in interest rates affect our bottom line?
🔷A win-win situation
A win-win situation or result is one that is good for everyone who is involved
👉Flexible working hours are a win-win situation for employers and employees.
🔷Tricks of the trade
methods that help you to do a job better or faster
👉Journalists have to learn the tricks of the trade quickly if they want to get the good stories.
🔷In the red
spending and owing more money than is being earned
👉Apparently the company had been in the red for some time before it went out of business.
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🔷Golden opportunity
a chance to do something that is likely to be successful and rewarding
👉This is one golden opportunity we must not waste.
🔷Sell like hotcakes
To be sold quickly and in large quantities.
👉This record has been selling like hotcakes—I can't keep it in stock!
🔷Household name
a person or thing that is well known by the public.
👉"he'd never become a household name, unlike his famous younger brother"
🔷Put/ Throw a spanner in the works (informal.)
to cause something to not go as planned
👉We were ready to start the project when the bank threw a spanner in the works by denying the loan.
🔷A hands-on approach
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions
👉She's very much a hands-on manager.
👉A hands-on approach to the music itself has been lacking until now.
🔷Make a name for oneself
become famous
👉"by the time he was thirty-five, he had made a name for himself as a successful railway contractor"
🔷Corner the market
If a company corners the market in a particular type of product, it is more successful than any other company at selling the product
👉They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the world.
🔷The bottom line
the final line in the accounts of a company or organization, stating the total profit or loss that has been made
👉How will the rise in interest rates affect our bottom line?
🔷A win-win situation
A win-win situation or result is one that is good for everyone who is involved
👉Flexible working hours are a win-win situation for employers and employees.
🔷Tricks of the trade
methods that help you to do a job better or faster
👉Journalists have to learn the tricks of the trade quickly if they want to get the good stories.
🔷In the red
spending and owing more money than is being earned
👉Apparently the company had been in the red for some time before it went out of business.
🔥WEATHER IDIOMS
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