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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s take a beat. ESPECIALLY used in a corporate world complex.

Everyone I work with now insists they say it as corporate speak, but no. You heard it on HBO’s Succession as corporate speak. It was not actually corporate speak prior to Succession and I’m convinced it was some sort of mistake like when occasionally you’ll hear a legal Latin expression mispronounced in a lawyer/legal show because the writers obviously aren’t lawyers [/quote]

People used that phrase in corporate settings prior to Succession. It's not an uncommon phrase. I noticed a lot of kind of therapy-minded phrases started sneaking into corporate jargon 10-15 years ago, and this is one of them. I also don't mind it because it's almost never a bad idea.

Corporate phrases I hate: out of pocket, circle back, deliverable, and random insults about power and hierarchy that reference totally different settings like "oh he's all hat and no cattle" to refer to someone with a big title and but little staff. "Take a beat" doesn't really register.[/quote]

Pp - ok I stand corrected, but really? I never heard it before succession and work with corporate and M&A consultant types who love those cheesy sayings (boil the ocean, run it up the flagpole, etc and before the world became PC, shanghai’ed, open the kimono).

But I could be wrong! Anyway, I hate how suddenly everyone started using it.

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"Boil the ocean"? What does that mean? (Seriously, I don't get it).

Someone I worked with used "open kimono" (as in, le's not hold back any information). At first I thought, okay, I get it but then it occurred to me, is that like seeing someone naked? I could never use this phrase.

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Open the kimono is annoying bc ..
I get the analogy. Let’s be open here. Completely open

But then I start to imagine anyone in the room, particularly the person saying it, naked. And I assume it’s very very very unsexy. Like now I’m imagining wrinkles in certain places, you farting naked. Bad.[/quote]
Exactly!![/quote]

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