F2F Class Notes December 20th (Ben)

Demo StudentCarol Lee

Vocabulary

Long stories short,

To begin with = In the first place

affect

  • How closely related to this incident are you?
  • I couldn’t be any closer. My boss will be really affected if we don’t find a way out.

All the more reason (for someone) to do something

in the red = losing money

to hit rock bottom = to be at the lowest point possible

cut the losses 

  • We can’t afford any more training for this year. The company is in the red
  • All the more reason to try to make employees more efficient !
  • You don’t get it, we really have hit rock bottom. Now let’s just try to cut the losses and save what can be saved.