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What does it mean: "Learn the ropes"?
Learn how to do something for the first time
What does it mean: "Achieve the target"?
Complete or reach to the goal
What does it mean: "Target to complete"?
When you have a goal that you need to reach in a specific period of time
What does it mean: "Review the plan"?
Check carefully all the aspects of a program or idea
What does it mean: "Make a plan"?
Give ideas, create agreements to do a job or a task
What does it mean: "Sign off the project"?
To approve or accept the project when is finished
What does it mean: "Tasked with"?
To give someone a job or a responsability
What does it mean: "Keep an eye on the ball"?
To be only and exclusively focused on the thing you need to do
What does it mean: "Stick to the plan"?
Do the plan according to what it was decided and stipulated
What does it mean: "Run around in circles"?
Doing something repeatedly without getting any results
What does it mean: "Wrap up the project"?
Finish the project
What does it mean: "Cut corners"?
Skip or eliminate certain parts of your project to finish it faster
What does it mean: "Get up to speed"?
When you miss a meeting or something, to catch up and know what information you didn't get
What does it mean: "By the book"?
When you do things according to the rules without modifying a single thing
What does it mean: "Behind the scene"?
What does it mean: "Outsource a task"?
Send a task to another company or another person outside your own company to do it for you
What does it mean: "Above board"?
Do the things in the ethical and honest way
What does it mean: "Corner the market"?
When your company becomes more powerful than your competitors and control the market
What does it mean: "Hands are tied"?
When there is nothing else you could do in a specific situation
What does it mean: "Hit the ground running"?
When you start a project or task with all the energy or enthusiasm.
What does it mean: "Down the drain"?
When the effort, the money or time you spend in something seems wasted, with no value
What does it mean: "Knuckle down"?
Concentrate
What does it mean: "Get something off the ground"?
What does it mean: "Kick-off"?
To officially start the project
What does it mean: "Back to the drawing board"?
When your idea failed and you need to think it over or again from a new perspective