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It's all about business jargon and the strange phrases we use at work.
Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work and our special series all about business jargon.
I'm Phil.
And I'm Pippa.
We've been talking about the strange words and phrases we use at work that not everyone understands.
And today we're focusing on the ways we talk about delays.
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So Phil, sometimes it can feel like things are happening really slowly at work.
Yes, it can be frustrating, can't it?
If you've got an idea, you really want to get started on,
but maybe there's not enough time, there's not enough space, there's other more important things.
Yeah,
or you've got something you're really passionate about and you're in meetings and you just feel like other people are delaying it,
they don't want you to kind of get cracking on your idea.
And we're going to look at some common jargon phrases that are used to talk about delays.
Yeah, so the first phrase we have is to put something on the back burner.