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Hah good one
Gross, there are so many idioms like this that went from commonplace to totally tone deaf, in the span of just a few years. “Open the kimono,” “presentation length should be like a skirt - long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to be interesting” etc on and on and on.
I mean, they were all pretty funny (and I’m a feminist leaning female), but to me it’s interesting that those kinds of idioms went from “colorful” to “wildly inappropriate” so quickly.
To colleague having a baby: “ are you expecting a snow shoveler or a dishwasher?”
Wrong in so many ways
Yeah I do both
Was once in a disagreement with a PM and she was saying I was “double teaming” her 😳
Mansplaining? I was referring to the sexual term as I know nothing about sportsball.
* beneath the covers
I think this is taken from a review of a mathematical article or similar; I feel confident I’ve seen it on r/math.
"Let's go at this open kimono,"