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at your leisure : at your convenience.

Can I nuke it?

• quantum leap
• clutter
• moral of the story
• RTFM
• be swayed either way
• idiosyncratic
• go out on a limb meaning
• risk it for the biscuit
• wild-goose chase
• go on our merry way
• janky
• throw anything down (put down a meeting)
• take a crack at a problem
• pithy
• spit-balling: quickly suggest things without thinking much about it.
• Laissez-Faire: allow to do

"I don't think I quite understand the problem well enough yet"

• Is there someone who knows ... well enough to talk me through which parts I can hackaway at and which parts will break if I mess with them?
• umpteenth: many
• Is there anyway that we could get this looked at today?
• rope me back in
• snoop (investigate)
• got the better of me: trick someone. Elastic got a better of me
• smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence
• Drooped: bend and hang. arm is drooped
• have the weight to force the issue
• Awesome I will keep my eyes peeled
• the moxi_data wrangling is becoming a way of life for us
• please confirm just for sanity that ...
• let's knock it out in a hackathon
• For the sake of encapsulating this for product management, would be right to think the following?
  1. ...
  2. Sounds right?
• scratch that: disgard it
• 3x or 4x cognitive effort to deal with this hospital.
• drill down to the cause of this issue.
• I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, obviously I believe you, just trying to understand
• Would you say you don't have the bandwidth to really look into this right now due to all the other stuff that's happening?
• it's a major barrier to utilization
• just hang tight
• nothing lights a fire faster under support's butt than ...
• as sidd is not available, who is the next line of defense? ping you as well for awareness, for visibility

huffing and puffing

• play-by-play
• tabled
• can you nix my two demos
• well-worn: idea repeated so many times, that it has no interest.
• for good measures: in addition
• hunch: 直觉
• barter: 物物交换

I can't get enough of this view

• 73 questions with Vogue
• Make yourselves at home
• all grievances
• flipflop (switch)
• snuggly (comfy)
• need-to-know basis
• the meeting is running a bit over
• point taken
• at odds with each other
• doubly
• topical: (topical interest)
• guilty party
• doxing: 人肉
• won't bore you with ...

all of this is to say;

• In a surprising turn of events
• hodgepodge: 大杂烩
• wrangle
• PTAL
• clobber
• I need to slip out a little early
• small pang (sharp pain), sympathetic pain
• I can't really speak much to those issues, if I'm honest.
• amenable: willing to be compliant
• fly-on-the-wall: unnoticed observer.
• surreptitiously:
• NLT: no later than
• antithesis: the direct opposite
• epilog: at the end of a book
• ad nauseaum: to sickness
• I'm mystified that ... it looks like

punt

• I'm a little unexcited by ...
• Put in the leg work 跑腿
• there's no expectation that this is true
• I'd chalk it up to inexperience (attribute)
• Pin down the tech debt so that interest doesn't grow
• I'd like call that one done
• Have diminished capacity
• I'm making developer faces. Can you continue?
• a primer?
  • expedient: fast.
  • set a bad precedent
• final verdict:
• rock on
• No good deed goes unpunished
• Due diligence(reasonable steps taken by person to satisfy a legal requirement)
• air quotes

Carousel

• Flew over my head: didn't understand what was happening
• in the midst of
• Take up the ladder
• holler: loud shout to complain: he hollers when wants feeding
  • harf: bark
• I've warned about this issue
• derailing? Cause the train to leave the course
• drive that effort
• then yours truly is the one to blame: yours truly: oneself
• redemption arc: story line where an immoral character redeems themselves
• ancillary: affiliated
• wee hours
• you beat me to it
• Screw the pooch extra hard: pooch: dog. making humiliating mistakes
• X-posting: cross posting
• hard-won experience: worked hard to achieve something

I will make noise when it's ready for review

• C&P: copy and paste
• I grant you that ... : I agree that .... but ...
• muck: I really mucked up the conversation
• Kerfuffle: fuss. there was a bit of kerfuffle at the airport when ...
• vestigial: features that evolved to be much smaller, in terms of usefulness. Tail bone is vestigial
• Omniscience: divine being knows everything
• Leap frog: if we want to leap frog something: fast-track something
• Make concerted effort: great deal of effort
• thread the needle: great skill at doing something. Making precise passes between defenders
• Mebbe: maybe
• Vengeance: revenge
• Do we want to preface this?

Atrocity: I'm innocent of the atrocity of something (brutal & violent something)

• Understand health records in layman's terms: in simple terms
• I will blast if ...
• Keep people on their toes: Cause people to be alerted and prepared to deal with problems
• My piece is that ...
• Gitlab math is pretty next level
• Take a bit of a tangent
• inordinately: excessively

Strike iron while it's hot

• earmark: like marking cattles to show ownership. Earmarking money for a project is usually done in political projects.
• strip mall: most common malls you'd see in the states