Action point: Specific place where you go for some action. Pub, nightclub, etc.

Baseline: The most direct path home from 3rd in American baseball or a nifty riff on an old Fender.

Blue-sky: The colour of the sky. Self-explanatory, really.

Deliverables: Like the ‘Incredibles’ but with a pimped out Courier van.

Developing up: What a proper photographer used to do with a thing called a ‘film’.

Discovery: Finding things for the very first time, ever.

Enhancement meeting: Hair appointment, facial, makeover or any other beauty treatment that looks great for five minutes and then reverts to its old self.

Gateways Really big doorways.

Go live; A relocation order, or maybe a new boy band.

Health check: Either a medical check-up or a refund from Southern Cross.

Hot desk: Stolen.

Interface: A social networking question – as in, “So are you inter Facebook?”

Milestones: Like Gallstones only bigger and really painful.

Onboarding: Getting rid of the boarder, standing up on your first wave, doing the ironing.

Raising the bar: Flip top counter in a pub providing access for staff – see action point.

Round the table: A fun game for four or more players.

Scope: Telescopic sights. Useful for targeting individuals.

Skill set: A man’s best friend: drill, circular saw and angle grinder.

Stakeholder: Zombie with a pointed stick.

Way forward: Someone or something that is so much ahead of you, like, way forward.

Win–win: A draw.

Work-flowed: The result of quickly lifting up your desk at one end. Also known as a planned-slide, or clear desk policy.

Work package: A small parcel delivered to work, usually by a deliverable (see above).

Workshop: Bench, tools, safety gear and old doddery guy in a grungy apron.

Work streams: Office flood.