To fill someone in on something: To inform someone of something he or she missed.

To make it to an event: To attend an event.

Bogged down: Busy, involved in tedious details.

To hear something through the grapevine: To learn of something through an unofficial channel.

To give someone the boot: To make someone leave, to send someone away. Here it is used to mean “lay someone off.”

To leap at the chance: To be eager to do something, to be verywilling to accept an opportunity

Win-win, or a win-win situation: A situation that is beneficial to everyone concerned.

To take on something: To become responsible for something. To agree to a new responsibility.

Hold your horses: Wait. Move more slowly.

To put the cart before the horse: To do something out of logical order, to perform a step before its appropriate time.

To have your eye on someone: To watch or examine someone closely.

To go south: To go wrong. To end or stop because of problems.

To get something: To understand something.

To cover your back: To take steps that will protect you in thefuture. To be very shrewd and cautious in protecting yourself against being held responsible for potential problems.

To hit the nail on the head: To identify the important issue or main point of a situation with precision.

Swamped: Very busy.

To come through: To happen, to materialize, to become a realevent.

To fall on deaf ears: To be pointless to mention, suggesting thatthe person you’d like to talk to won’t care about your complaint, opinion, or problem.

To jump down someone’s throat: To overreact and attack someone verbally.

Cornered: Threatened. Feeling as if you don’t have many options left.

To go over someone’s head: To not confront someone about a problem, but instead bring it up with another person who is higher in authority.

To not hold your breath: To not wait for something to happen with much hope.

To keep a low profile: To do nothing that would draw attention to you or distinguish you from others.

Pink slip: Notification that you’ve been fired. The full expression is “to get a pink slip.”

Written in stone: Fixed, firm, unchangeable.