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. 

ワルシャワ渡航記 Part35: ウクライナ戦争の影響で正月帰国できない

　いま持っているビザの有効期限が近づいているので、新しいビザ（EUブルーカード）の申請に行ってきた。ウクライナ戦争の難民対応でポーランドの移民局は高負荷状態になっているらしく、ビザの発行までに4~5ヶ月かかるらしい。新しいビザが発行される前に現行のビザの期限が切れてしまうのだが、ビザの発行待ち期間は法的にポーランドに滞在できるそうだ。しかし、ポーランド国外には出れないらしい。ということで、正月は日本に帰れそうにない。悲しい。

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