Idioms

"You need to pay more attention to what you are doing. Use your gray ..... for something other than figuring out how to get out of work," the boss told Nick.

"Many companies can come up with good ideas that fail in the implementation stage. Too often, too much time is spent refining the idea and not enough time is spent of determining how to make the idea come to fruition. When you become managers, you will have to remember to allocate a lot of time to planning the implementation of an idea so that it doesn't die on the .....," the management professor told her students.

"I told Bill that he was to be grounded for two weeks. He gave an excuse of why he was late for curfew but it seemed pretty ..... to me. He said that the bus broke down and they wouldn't let the passengers off for two hours until it was fixed. I think he is lying," Mary said to her husband.

"Wow, you only had to pay $10 to get a new headlight put into your car? You got off ...... Where did you go? I am going to take my car there if I need a new headlight," Greg said to Tanya.

"My friend said he would help us build the new room and he meant it when he said he'd come. I know when he's lying he's my best friend. I can read him like a .....," Zack said to Sarah.

When the new manager found out how many mistakes the acting manager made before he got there, he made him walk the ...... He couldn't allow someone to work there who obviously didn't care about his work or the company.

"I know you like to joke around and you don't like our boss, but taking a ..... at him in public was not a good idea," Paula said to Ricky.

"You're right, there's way more money in construction than in white-collar work. I'm quitting this job and getting one as an electrician," Adam announced. Todd replied, "Good. I've been waiting for you to see the ...... Now you can make some real money!"

"Ben finally broke up with Allison. She told him he had to see an analyst, and that was the final .....," Sam said.

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