(1). What Congress does … all the time.
“Sure we avoided the fiscal cliff today, but all we’ve really done is kick the can down the road…thank god I’ll be long dead before any of this really matters!”
Kick The Can Down The Road
RANDOM LINGO
Optically-Pleasing
(1). Something you’d like all of your KPIs to be.
“Hmmm … is there any way we can eliminate that line-item marked “fees”? I just don’t think it’ll be optically-pleasing to the client given our performance is down about six percent from last year.”
Put on the Back Burner
(1). To refuse to allocate resources to a project or expenditure, often used by management to avoid telling their employees that the company is never, ever going to spring for new computers.
“I think color monitors are a great idea, Ken. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to put that on the back burner for now. We really need to focus on new company cars for the partners.”