GAFA Engineer's English Vocabulary List: Page 2

the juice is worth the squeeze

• You've got to be sure that the juice is worth the squeeze.
• Always know if the juice is worth the squeeze.

drive home

• What I want to drive home is this.
• The news drive home the fact that the company is successful.

go out the window

• Possible ways to solve the problem went out the window.
• The plan went out the window.

tank

• After the roll out of new build, the performance tanked.
• Their second movie tanked.

ring a bell

• Does it ring a bell to you guys?
• The name rings a bell.

lift a restriction

• Covid-19 related restrictions will be lifted next month.
• Congress might finally lift the restriction.

employee attrition

• Employee attrition decreased by 50 percent.
• The company's Employee attrition rate seems to be high.

drink from the firehose

• It feels like drinking from the firehose.
• You're not drinking from the firehose enough.

how the sausage is made

• You don't have to know how the sausage is made.
• I know what it can do, but I don't know how the sausage is made.