Mouthful of Business Jargon --DeWese

"Smell test." "This new proofing system doesn't pass the smell test."

"Critical path." "The critical path for getting the Humongous account is diagrammed on these six flip chart pages. We have used both PERT and GANNT charting simultaneously."

"Low-hanging fruit." "Let's give the new salesman the old accounts where he can pick the low-hanging fruit. It will build his confidence." Instead, you should have said, "Let's give the new guy some existing accounts so he can make some easy sales and learn the ropes ("learning the ropes" was first coined in the 1930s at the U.S. Naval Academy and is not presently in use in American business.)