(1). Short-hand for a trading desk at a financial firm.
Desk
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Kissing Frogs
(1). Taking on a bunch of crummy accounts in hopes that one or two of them will turn into a good account. Some do, most don’t.
“Look, sometimes you just have to keep kissing frogs until one of them turns into a prince! One of these companies is bound to go public someday! And when it does, we’ll be ready!”
Fly-By
(1). A term used to describe a senior manager’s brief attendance at a client meeting in hopes of sufficiently impressing the client so that they stay with the company for at least another year.
“I’m going to take a leak, do a fly-by for the meeting with Jonathan, then it’s off to Cabo!”