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Talking about...the expression "swings and roundabouts"

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

How to Use Swings Around Abouts to Give Feedback

Swings around abouts is a nice piece of vocabulary that you could use to say Well, you know, I mean no real gains or losses, why not? So it's kind of an informal business, it's like business colloquial, okay? It does kind of give it has an element of casual. With brainstorming You need to have a noun after it Brainstorming there is a noun acting as an adjective But you need to say a brainstorming session or a brainstorming meeting A lot of my students go on about a brainstorming And I'm like a brainstorming what? We have to specify brainstorming meaning, a brainstorming workshop, a brainstormed session Whatever you

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