Business Expressions and its real meaning – Part 1

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Here you can find some useful expressions talking about different situations inside business.

Situation	Expressions	Real Meaning
Telephoning	Sorry, I got cut off	Sorry, the line was disconnected
	Can you speak up?	Can you speak more loudly?
	I’m a bit tied up at the moment	I’m not available now
Timing	Be on schedule	Be as planned
	It arrived just in time	It arrived before it was too late
	Sorry to ask you at such short notice	Sorry to give you so little time to prepare
	A short-sighted view	Only seeing the immediate benefits
Problems and Solutions	Tackle / address the problem	Deal with the problem
	Find a stop-gap solution	Find a temporary solution
	Cut corners	Reach a solution, usually quickly or easily, often by not observing correct practice
	Nip it in the bud	stop a problem before it gets worse
	Teething problems	problems always encountered in the early stages of a project
Understanding	I couldn’t make head or tail of it	I couldn’t understand it at all
	His presentation went right over my head	His presentation was too difficult to understand
	You’ll get the hang of it	You’ll learn how it works