- [[English Lesson]]
	- modern business English expressions
		- **“could you give me a ballpark figure?”**
			- approximate/rough
			- around/roughly
			- more or less
			- ____ or so
		- it's getting late and you hear a colleague say this:
			- “Team, I am so done with this project.”
			  How would you react?
			- keep focused on the work at hand
			- scatty = scatter-brained
		- your colleague says this:
			- The marketing team think(s) the launch is on Tuesday.
			- But the design team think(s) it's on Wednesday. what's going on?
			- do you say:
				- they must have **got their knickers in a twist **
				- they must have **got their wires crossed**
			- blunt
			- to get your knickers in a twist = lose your self-control, blow up
			- to get your wires crossed = get sth. wrong
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