burn the midnight oil
- Nghĩa tiếng Việt
- Thức khuya làm việc
- Định nghĩa tiếng Anh
- To work very late into the night on something.
Ví dụ: She's been burning the midnight oil to finish her thesis.

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Thành ngữ mô tả áp lực và quy trình công việc, như burn the midnight oil, move the goalposts và tình trạng bottleneck làm chậm cả tiến độ, thường dùng trong môi trường công sở.

Ví dụ: She's been burning the midnight oil to finish her thesis.

Ví dụ: The new contract was a win-win situation for both companies.

Ví dụ: Agreeing to organise three events in one week, he had clearly bitten off more than he could chew.

Ví dụ: Let's touch base again next week to see how the project is going.

Ví dụ: He clearly hadn't read the room before making that joke in the meeting.

Ví dụ: Every time we meet the target, management seems to move the goalposts.

Ví dụ: She had to think on her feet when the client changed the request.

Ví dụ: The board just rubber-stamped the manager's decision.

Ví dụ: Before the launch, we need to get our ducks in a row.

Ví dụ: Our holiday plans are still up in the air.

Ví dụ: She was a linchpin and nobody realised until she left.

Ví dụ: Approval is a bottleneck and always has been.

Ví dụ: They bought it as a going concern rather than for the land.

Ví dụ: He was hired as an engineer and became a paper pusher.

Ví dụ: Nobody on the shop floor had been asked a single question.

Ví dụ: The forum became a talking shop within a year.

Ví dụ: Promotion there is a closed shop and always was.

Ví dụ: Nobody had thought about an exit strategy before signing.

Ví dụ: A pay freeze in that year was a hard sell.

Ví dụ: They did a soft launch in two cities and learned a lot.
