Being busy
Work
Career
Money
Slang
100

Bingo!!!

+100

100

This slang expression describes a person who sits at a desk all day at work and isn’t very active.

Desk jockey

100

A piece of cake

Easy, uncomplicated

100

Money that’s easily earned is easily spent

easy come, easy go

100

a pink collar worker

someone whoworks in the service industry.

200

Very active and hardworking

 to be as busy as a bee

200

Take someone under your

wing

Help someone by showing them how to do something; showing support to someone

200

get promotion

to climb the corporate ladder

200

Bingo!!!

+200

200

Deadwood

This is a slang word used for a person that has no skills or does nothing to produce income for a business.

300

Have many jobs, roles, or

responsibilities

Wear many hats

300

Teach someone how to do something

Show someone the ropes

300

generous benefits

extra benefits like health insurance, discounts, a company car

300

To live with very little money 

to live on a shoestring

300

Return to the beginning; starting over

Back to the drawing board/ back to the salt mines

400

To be busy and unable to do something else

to be tied up (with something)


400

Start from the very beginning

Start from scratch

400

Burning the midnight oil

Working late into the night

400

Money is not easy to get; it’s limited

money doesn’t grow on trees

400

Harder, tougher , unpleasant work

dirty work

500

talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work.

Talk shop

500

to persuade someone to leave their job by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position

Headhunted

500

Elbow grease

Hard work, effort

500

To be born in a wealthy family

Born with a silver spoon in your mouth

500

Beating a dead horse

Talking about an idea or issue too much or too long.

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