(1). A dollar amount that just may be subject to considerable interpretation.
“Yeah…I know he said he was worth a billion dollars, but I think that’s a bit of a squishy number. We might want to make that ‘b’ an ‘m’.”
Squishy Number
RANDOM LINGO
Up On His Hind Legs
(1). The way some people get when someone challenges or disagrees with them, often ending in a public (and relatively salty) series of post-meeting rants.
“Whoa…Mike really got up on his hind legs this morning after David pushed back on his proposal. I mean, did you ever hear someone drop the f-bomb so many times during one conference call?”
Let's Take That Offline
(1). What the host of a conference call says to try to regain control after the call has been hopelessly sidetracked by an irrelevant issue or question.
“Hey Tom, thanks for raising that issue, but let’s take that offline so we can get back to actual topic of our call today.”
Props to Terry D. for the submission.
(2). May be used to let the room know that leadership is not willing to talk about the subject at hand.
“This has been a great discussion, but let’s take that topic offline and move on.”
Props to Rob for the submission.