Category · 76 phrases
A list of phrases about business and work
- A bad workman always blames his tools
- A lick and a promise
- A piece of the action
- A zero-sum game
- A1 at Lloyd's
- Above my pay grade
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Another day, another dollar
- As busy as a bee
- As busy as a one-armed paperhanger
- Backroom boy
- Bean counter
- Bottom-up
- Bricks and clicks
- Bricks and mortar
- Bring home the bacon
- Buckle down
- Buggins' turn
- Burning the midnight oil
- Business before pleasure
- Canteen culture
- Cheap at half the price
- Code monkey
- Cooking the books
- Cut corners
- Daily grind
- Elbow grease
- Elevator Pitch
- Everybody out
- Flog a dead horse
- Friday afternoon car
- Get the sack
- Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Grist to the mill
- Have your work cut out
- High-flyer
- Including, but not limited to
- Jack of all trades
- Just in time
- Knock off
- Knuckle down
- Market forces
- Men in suits
- Move the needle
- Movers and shakers
- My way or the highway
- Nail it
- Never knowingly undersold
- Nine to five
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- Nothing succeeds like success
- On the dole
- One stop shop
- Plug along
- Point-and-click
- Put paid to
- Queer Street
- Queer the pitch
- Rag-and-bone man
- Ring-fencing
- Sex and shopping
- Shoddy
- Stump up
- The balance of trade
- The customer is always right
- The devil is in the details
- The order of the boot
- The rat race
- There is no such thing as bad publicity
- There's no such thing as a free lunch
- Think outside the box
- Top banana
- Vorsprung Durch Technik
- Whistle-blower
- Wine and dine
- Work out