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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in an overseas office and my staff was completely befuddled whenever US business people (I'm sure other nationalitie are the same but we're a US company) and they used phrases like "elephant in the room," etc. I watched a guy have an entire conversation in jargon and had no clue that my colleagues had no idea what he was talking about. After that, I had an intern collect US business phrases and translate them into the local language and include the origin story, which is often sports as it turns out. I had a US gov official come to give a talk and she said "lift the kimono" and "one ring to rule them all" and "peel the onion" in the span of 10 minutes. I was, like, really? Really????[/quote] LOL. agree, zero self awareness. Once my oldest kid was 5 yo, she starting taking grandma's many cliches literally and asked the wildest questions. So funny, but utterly confusing to her![/quote]
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