All hands meeting
All employees must attend the meeting ("all hands on deck")
The ball is in your court.
It's your turn to share your ideas
Put a pin in it
Stop talking about something for a while
Solo thinking
Trying to solve a problem by yourself
Across the pond
Reference to North American/Europe's position to each other ("our colleagues across the pond")
Touch base
A quick talk/email for an update on something
All due respect
An expression of disagreement/criticism
Reinvent the wheel
Recreating something that already exists, often unnecessarily
Play hard ball
Be a tough negotiator
Barking up the wrong tree
Following the wrong course of action
The elephant in the room
An obvious major problem/issue that people avoid discussing/ acknowledging
The way the cookie crumbles
The way things work out
Eat a reality sandwich
Living in reality, facing what is going on around you
A dog in this fight
Being affected by the outcome of something
Brownie points
An imaginary reward for doing good deeds, finding success or earning favour with someone
Jumping through hoops
Have to use extreme amount of effort to achieve something
