The Office Medltdown

Question 1

Pull the plug

Answer 1

The client threatened to pull the plug when our team missed the deadline for a major project
Cancel the project

Question 2

Tore a strip off us
Drop the ball

Answer 2

Our manager tore a strip off us saying we’d dropped the ball.
- Scolded severely
- failed badly

Question 3

Kept my head down
Shoulder the blame

Answer 3

I kept my head down while Sarah shouldered the blame.
- avoid attention
- take responsibility

Question 4

Make amends
Beyond repair

Answer 4

We burned the midnight oil to make amends but the damage was beyond repair.
- fix mistakes
- irreversible

Question 5

Light of steam
chewing the fat

Answer 5

later we let off steam at a bar, chewing the fat about office politics.
- reduce stress
- chatting casually