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Another Corporate Idiom

If you don't have a toddler babbling at you, the next best thing for the linguistically alert (the dog making extended woofling noises is interesting very briefly) is to have a spouse or partner who works in environments where they use "birddog" as a verb, as in, "I'll go birddog that," which means to go hunting or searching for, though of course it doesn't literally involve dogs, birds, or guns.

All of which supports my thesis that corporate idioms are bit of nostalgia for a world of manly work that no longer exists.

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