Choose the best words for each gap.

1. There are many reasons why this project should have been a success. However, the - ? - blow by blow bottom line cork slap up is that it has been a huge failure.
2. Sadly, production has been unable to keep pace with demand. We are doing our best to eliminate the - ? - stop gaps bitter pills bottlenecks corkscrews .
3. We'll have to start again on this design. It's time to go back to - ? - the drawing board the classroom the alphabet the school books .
4. Tell me everything. I want a full - ? - mouth-by-mouth tongue-by-tongue suck-by-suck blow-by-blow account of what happened in the meeting.
5. The new manager's a bit slow sometimes. It can take him quite a while to - ? - have on track go above board with put down on take on board new ideas.

1. Many company employees are unhappy that the new dress code applies to everyone - ? - over the board under the board through the board across the board .
2. My boss loves to micro-manage. He’s always - ? - looking at my shoulder sitting on my face breathing down my neck sucking up my nose and never lets me make decisions on my own.
3. We need a logo for our new podcast. The best thing is to get a few people together and try to - ? - mindsuck brainstorm headspace overthink a name.
4. Yes, I know all about the problems we’re having with our Chinese suppliers. Karen - ? - made the information gave the head broke the news sent the shocks to me this morning.
5. I think I'm - ? - in a good way on to a good thing up a good tree over a good barrel with my new job because I can work from home as much as I want.

Choose the best words for each gap.

1. We need to go - ? - back to the table top back to the drawing board back to the water pump back to the future on our marketing strategy and start again from the beginning.
2. I imagine that their web design was very expensive indeed. I bet it - ? - cost the moon cost the sun cost the earth cost the planet .
3. Our state-of-the-art factory is right at the - ? - cutting cost cutting edge cutting fine cutting throat of new technology.
4. We didn’t make any profit in the South American market, so we had to - ? - cut some slack cut our cloth cut off our noses cut our losses and re-focus on Europe.
5. We had to take legal action to force them to - ? - cough over cough up cough on cough through the money they owed us.

Choose the best words for each gap.

1. We need to lower out prices because we’re facing some - ? - cut-up cut-throat short-cut uppercut competition from Chinese companies.
2. The product launch is scheduled for March 1st. If we don’t finalize everything by the end of the week, we’ll be - ? - pushing drawing cutting doing it too fine.
3. I went to an auction last week and made a - ? - dip drop bonk bid on a second hand van.
4. I’m dreadfully sorry. Our computer system - ? - fell down smashed crashed tumbled this morning and we can’t access our files.
5. Our firm has been losing money these last two years and we can’t afford to - ? - keep you on keep you up keep you going keep you over . I’m afraid we’re going to have to - ? - let you off let you go let you be let you away .