2005 1st Quarter Business Sayings

2005 was a very good year. Lots of angst in the boardrooms and meeting rooms about growing sales and market share. Didn’t seem that the good times would never end. And they didn’t…not in 2005. Picked up a great deal of mangled sayings that year. Here are the first of them:

1. Gut check / Gut instinct
2. You are peeing on me and telling me its raining…nice try!
3. Flushed out
4. Sell them like popcorn
5. The secret is in the pudding
6. As soon as its announced that the new blonde is coming to school, the old blonde is dead
7. We are in the soup and don’t know what’s coming down next
8. Don’t know when we are going to be hit with the turnip
9. Go back and stroke it
10. One foot on the casket
11. Curiosity teaser
12. Picking the fly S out of the pepper
13. I don’t want to mow your lawn
14. Prime the pump
15. Common sense ain’t that common
16. It is but it isn’t
17. The proof is in the numbers
18. Don’t equip it, strip it
19. Exactly right
20. Way, way, way
21. Too much vanilla ice cream makes you sick
22. Anthropomorphize
23. Let’s be seagulls
24. Put it on the hood
25. Scooped out of the chute
26. Trying to chase too many rabbits and not catching any
27. Consensed
28. Let’s not let a few details ruin a good story
29. The pig in the snake
30. Jump through a brick wall
31. Cheeks in the seats
32. The challenge is to decide what the challenge is
33. The objective is the goal
34. We have to find a way to achieve the objective
35. If you go and ask and the answer is no, then you have to make a decision
36. Coming down the pipe