Practice Quiz: Business Idioms – Part 2

Barbara: How many toy sales did we make last summer? Give me a .

Eric: About $5 million dollars’ worth. Most of it was from the Spiderman action figure – that was our .

Barbara: Toys based on movies always sell well. They’re a . We should do it again this year – there’s a new Superman movie coming out.

Eric: We don’t have the rights to that character. If we want to get the license before the movie comes out, I’ll have my , because there’s not much time.

Barbara: You just get the contract in place, and don’t worry about the rest. I can .

Eric: I’d like to work with a different lawyer, though – not Jim. Last year we almost lost the contract and he tried to to his assistant. He blamed her for not proofreading the documents.

Barbara: I’m not surprised. We only used Jim because he’s the CEO’s cousin, and I knew that he would cause problems.

Eric: I also noticed that he tends to when running out of time on a project. His research wasn’t very thorough.

Barbara: We’ll to find a lawyer who works better while , since this year’s timeline is even tighter.

Eric: Let’s make a to-do list so that we – we don’t want to forget anything.