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Cliché Meetings Buzzword General

In American English, to postpone a topic. In British English, to bring it up for discussion. Two nations, one verb, opposite meanings — the transatlantic meeting's finest ambush.

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“Let's table the pricing discussion — which, per the London office, started it.”

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Genuinely dangerous in international meetings. Say 'postpone' or 'discuss now' and defuse the grenade.

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