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- Carrot and stick
- Meaning: A carrot and stick approach is to offer others an incentive to do something and to punish them if they refuse to do it.
Example: Our company is using a carrot-and-stick approach to solve the late problem.
- Chalk and cheese
- Meaning: It means two things or people that are completely different from each other.
Example: Miranda and May always have different opinions and handle things very differently. They are chalk and cheese.
- Cloud on the horizon
- Meaning: A problem that you expect to come
Example: Preparation for this project has been smooth. The only cloud on the horizon is that the contractor may not be able to meet our deadline.
- Cold shoulder
- Meaning: This is to behave towards somebody deliberately in a way unfriendly and uncooperative.
Example: After an argument in a project meeting, Kay gave William the cold shoulder in the following week.
- Come up roses
- Meaning: It means things happen successfully.
Example: Although it has taken much time to find a suitable speaker, the seminar comes up roses.
- Cook someone's goose
- Meaning: To spoil someone's plans so that they cannot succeed
Example: Shirley cooked her manager's goose by exposing the tender proposal to their competitor.
- Crocodile tears
- Meaning: If someone cries crocodile tears, their tears or sadness are not sincere or genuine.
Example: John cries crocodile tears in front of a business partner he dislikes.
- Cut your teeth
- Meaning: Get your first experience and learn the basic skills for a career
Example: Fiona cut her teeth on a small boutique before she got a job in the largest local fashion chain-store.
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