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Confident Business English

CHAPTER

How to Lay the Groundwork for a Project

If we want a project or something to work, we need to lay the groundwork. So you can see from those examples, it's almost like laying the foundations for something. And maybe if it helps you remember, maybe you could link that back to almost like, and I'm sure lay the groundwork actually comes from construction because they have to build the foundations so that the building doesn't fall down. Oh, that's another expression. If something has legs, it means it's viable. It's not that it literally has legs. That would be quite frightening if you're sort of project plans or turned up with legs, but it meansIt's viable, it's feasible. It works.

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