>> Not having a dig but you do have a thing for using obscure phrases and
>> examples. You perhaps do it without realising. Like I said not a dig just an
>> observation.
I'd accept that. Some are professional jargon but many are things I grew up with, particularly things my father said. One came out at work yesterday; 'a meeting on the moors'. My father used it to describe off record meetings that 'never happened' for example business rivals meeting to fix prices and divvy up sales for their mutual benefit. I used it to describe off record meetings a client and his employer had held regarding possibility of a settlement to avoid a lengthy process of being 'managed out'. It was new to my supervisor as was one a week or too earlier 'away with your barrow' as might be delivered to a persistent and unwanted door to door hawker.
She and I also caught ourselves out with a piece of professional jargon - 'the lobster pot'. This refers to people moving from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. Once on UC there's no way of getting out/going back to legacy benefits - hence the lobster pot. Had quite a long discussion about a client who'd lost an award of Personal Independence Payment and whether consequent changes to his other benefits could put him in the lobster pot. Only after using phrase several times did we realise it meant nothing to the trainee who was shadowing me.
She gets it now!!
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Fri 15 Mar 19 at 09:59
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