Category: Business English
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Going concern
English Idiom: Going concern ArtisanEnglish.jp has been a going concern for a little over two years now. Wow! Time flies. On Monday last week, ArtisanEnglish.jp had its second anniversary. That’s right; it continues to grow, albeit slowly. A business that is successful and growing is usually called a going concern. Although ArtisanEnglish.jp is a…
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Don’t fish off the company pier
Proverb: Don’t fish off the company pier Keep your work and private lives separate; in other words, don’t fish off the company pier. We all know we don’t keep every fish we catch. Catch and release in the company pond is not a good idea because some fish come back to bite you. Don’t fish off…
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White Knight
Word of the Day: White Knight Let’s talk business. When a company is in financial trouble, one option to get out of it is to find a white knight. A white knight is another company or even a person who can buy the company or invest enough money into it to get it out of…
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Laissez-faire
Word of the Day: Laissez-faire There has been much media coverage about Renho, the new leader of the Democratic Party in Japan, and her dual Taiwanese-Japanese nationality. It was also reported that the Japanese government had taken a laissez-faire attitude towards dual citizenship. Although officially, Japanese citizens should give up their other nationality and possess…
