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automated office (AO)

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offi Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

branch office

an office in another location or city Please contact our branch office in your town or city.

in the offing

ready to happen, soon to be A great event was in the offing: the discovery of penicillin.

nail in your coffin

(See another nail in your coffin)

run for office

be a candidate in an election I do not plan to run for office this year. I'm leaving politics.

standoffish

not friendly, not sociable Brett appears to be standoffish, but he's really quite friendly.

boffin

an intellectual

coffin dodger

derogatory term for an elderly person

coffin nail

a cigarette

take office

Idiom(s): take office

Theme: POLITICS

to begin serving as an elected or appointed official.
• When did the mayor take office?
• All the elected officials took office just after the election.

do a land-office business

Idiom(s): do a land-office business

Theme: COMMERCE

to do a large amount of business in a short period of time.
• The ice cream shop always does a land-office business on a hot day.
• The tax collector's office did a land-office business on the day that taxes were due.

another nail in one's or sth's coffin

Idiom(s): (another) nail in one's or sth's coffin

Theme: DOOM

something that will harm or destroy someone or something.
• Every word of criticism that Mary said about her boss was a nail in her coffin.
• Losing the export order was the final nail in the company's coffin.

Nail in the coffin

A nail in someone or something's coffin is a problem or event that is a clear step towards an inevitable failure.

box office|box

n., informal 1. The place at movies and theaters where tickets may be purchased just before the performance instead of having ordered them through the telephone or having bought them at a ticket agency. No need to reserve the seats; we can pick them up at the box office. 2. A best selling movie, musical, or drama (where the tickets are all always sold out and people line up in front of the box office). John Wayne's last movie was a regular box office. 3. Anything successful or well liked. Betsie is no longer box office with me.

coffin nail|coffin|nail

n., slang A cigarette. "I stopped smoking," Algernon said. "In fact, I haven't had a coffin nail in well over a year."

front office|front|office

n., informal The group of persons who manage a business; the officers. The front office decides how much the workers are paid.

land-office business|business|land-office

n., informal A great rush of business. It was a hot day, and the drive-ins were doing a land-office business in ice cream and cold drinks.

box office

box office
1) The office where seats for a play, concert, or other form of entertainment may be purchased, as in Tickets are available at the box office. It is so called because originally (17th century) it was the place for hiring a box, a special compartment of theater seats set aside for ladies. [Second half of 1700s]
2) The financial receipts from a performance; also, a show's relative success in attracting a paying audience. For example, You may not consider it great art, but this play is good box office. [c. 1900]

front office

front office
The policy-making or executive individuals in an organization, as in I'll have to check with the front office before I can give you a discount. This term was originally underworld slang for police headquarters or the main detective bureau. It soon was extended to other administrative offices and their personnel. [c. 1900]

land-office business

land-office business
A thriving, expanding, or very profitable concern or volume of trade. For example, After the storm they did a land-office business in snow shovels and rock salt. This term, dating from the 1830s, alludes to the throng of applicants to government land offices through which Western lands were sold. It has been used for other booming business since the mid-1800s.

nail in one's coffin

nail in one's coffin
Something that might hasten or contribute to one's death, as in Every cigarette you smoke is another nail in your coffin. This expression, alluding to fastening down a coffin lid, is today almost always used for a harmful habit such as tobacco use (giving rise to the slang term coffin nail for a cigar or cigarette). The idea was first expressed in an ode by Pindar (the pseudonym of John Wolcot) in 1792: “Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt.”

office

office
see box office; front office; land-office business; take office.

offing

offing
see in the offing.