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  • Receive a benefit or positive result from your efforts
    Pay off
  • A situation where everyone involved benefits
    Win-win situation
  • Dominate or control a particular market or industry
    Corner the market
  • Be creative and come up with innovative ideas, not limited by traditional thinking
    Think outside the box
  • Sustain or maintain progress or momentum
    Keep the ball rolling
  • A stable or secure position, often in a figurative sense
    Strong footing
  • Make contact or reconnect with someone
    Touch base
  • make someone who you have not met before feel more relaxed
    break the ice
  • Take on various roles or responsibilities
    Wear many hats
  • Reduce spending and live more frugally
    Tighten our belts
  • finish for today
    call it a day
  • Start over because a previous attempt failed
    Back to the drawing board
  • In a brief and concise summary
    In a nutshell
  • Something not very difficult or complicated
    Not rocket science
  • Be discovered in the act of doing something wrong or illegal
    To be caught red-handed
  • Take advantage of an opportunity while it's available
    Strike while the iron is hot
  • Acquire the necessary skills or knowledge to do a job
    Learn the ropes
  • Do something in a quicker or cheaper way, often sacrificing quality
    Cut corners
  • Something that significantly alters a situation or strategy
    Game changer
  • The most important or essential part of a situation
    The bottom line
  • creating an obstacle or delay in progress or production
    causing a bottleneck
  • A history of past performance or achievements
    Track record
  • Follow rules or guidelines precisely
    By the book
  • Learning to do something that has already been done successfully
    reinventing the wheel
  • stop doing something that is already failing in order to reduce the amount of time or money that is being wasted on it
    cut our losses