Moving forwards
Moving forwards
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Is it just where I work or has this phrase taken over everywhere? And it's always said in a kind of condescending way too.
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I would like to know as opposed to what? backwards, sideways, diagonally?
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ewh, as adverbs both versions are accepted in some cases. As a noun, forwards, are, in some games (eg, rugby) the players who attempt to score.
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In my experienced rugby forwards tend to lie in a big sweaty heap in the middle of the field while it's the backs that score
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As I remember, third line forwards (blindside flankers) plus backs and wingers are generally the try scorers. My experience many many years ago ended quickly and unhappily
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remember, the lower the number, the nearer to god
or else an inverse relationship to the number of hair care products in your kit bag.
cheers
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Maybe you never played it, or (Horrors) maybe you did.
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not like that "silk short sport" with more acting than an afternoon soap
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I ahven't noticed a proliferation of the use "forwards" in my circles - maybe it's a regional use that is growing in popularity. We may yet get it here.
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Jordan
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I was a blindside flanker when playing seriously and never scored at that position (I was great defensively but couldn't catch a cold let alone a 20 ft, off target spin pass which somewhat limited my career I did score the day all the backs were ill and so the reserve forwards got to play and I think the coach picked our positions by lots. I was outside Centre and scored so I now have the unshakeable opinion it’s easier for backs to score than forwards)
In girlie football (by which I mean soccer not that other girlie football where you have to wear helmets and pads and throw the ball forward) the forwards typically score. In proper manly, Rugby Football the backs tend to score more. One of many ways in which Rugby is the opposite of Soccer.
Rugby team has 8 forwards and 7 girls, sorry backs. I guess in an advancing rolling mall you could correctly say “The forwards are moving forwards”
If we're all thinking outside of the box then moving forwards we should be able to find a synergistic solution to the current challenge.
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It seems within the last 6 months that my favorite boss has started the habit of describing his intentions as a a "going-forward plan". (Is there any other kind of plan?)
I haven't heard the term "going-forwards" (with an "s") yet. That would be even more annoying.
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Have done before "moving forwards" I probably will again.
Do the same people use "outside of the box" as "moving forwards" or is that pase (imagin an accute accent above the e) now.
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Sometimes I only open my mouth to swap feet...
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In a game, troops in the war, they advance or "they move forwards" slowly or faster in a straight or diagonal line according the moment situation.
luis
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On the other hand, given a linear agenda, "moving forward" might simply mean that given the alloted time, we need to move on to the next subject. "Moving on," I like that much better.
"Moving on," hmmm, how does one do that!?
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Jordan
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that seems to be how I've heard it too.
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Boiling the Ocean - To do an extroadinary amount of work (often without focus or structure) to answer a question.
Circle back (bounce) - To speak with someone again about a given issue.
Fishing Expedition - Looking for something useful, interesting, or insightful in a data set that is unlikely to yield any of these things.
Hard back end (Hard stop) - The real (as opposed to scheduled) time when an activity needs to be complete.
Leverage - What you do with item X (knowledge, relationship, skill set, etc) to help increase the chance to accomplish/succeed with activity Y.
Out-of-pocket - Have heard it mean both traveling and busy. (Different from out-of pocket expense)
Peel the onion - Revisit an issue and (attempt to) get to the next level deeper.
Tea & biscuits - A talk/interview/discussion that isn't helping you get any closer to the answer you want.
Jordan
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luis
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If someone took half a day off to go to the dentist and doesn't plan to be reachable by cell phone, he's out of pocket.
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http://www.word-detective.com/012000.html
I always used it for the money sense, and it still bothers me to hear it for the availability sense. But I don't have a leg to stand on if I object to that use; it's here to stay.
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