Shunt (Trains) = to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose.
Shunt = to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects.
One can never mind being shunted to spring again…
Lilac by Daniel F. Gerhartz.
To be (as) thick as thieves = (informal) (of two or more people) very friendly, especially in a way that makes other people suspicious.
Art by amazing Michael Cheval.
Dba = doing business as – used before the name of a business to indicate that a person or company with a different name is doing business under this name:
John Peters, dba Peter’s Plants.
Just a thought:
I bid you a beautiful (rainy) day teeming with happy events!
IoT = The Internet of Things
IoT means that everything from household appliances, to construction equipment, to vehicles and buildings will transmit data and communicate with other objects or people. That means everything will be able to be measured and tracked all the time. Cloud-based apps and tools will be able to analyze and translate that data into useful information. All this data can fuel better decisions and help develop better outcomes.
Source: www.entrepreneur.com.
My “Intuition of Things” speaks about a very beautiful today!
Art: Hokusai Katsushika, Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry Blossoms , 1834.
Gardening leave = a period of time after an employee leaves a job when they continue to be paid but are not allowed to go to work or to begin a new job.
Your employer may ask you not to come into work, or to work at home or another location during your notice period. This is called “gardening leave”.
You will get the same pay and contractual benefits.
A Blissful Last Day of March!
Greenway = a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city.
I wish you for today
To go astray
In a beautiful array
Of magnificent greenway.
Have an axe to grind = to have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something.
I have an axe to grind about fairness…
Or as dear Somerset (Maugham) used to say: “It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. ”
What I have learned in business is to always dress up the truth in the most beautiful words I can muster.
When you paint like this, words are speechless…
By Julius von Klever.
Uberize (of a business) – to change or be changed into an app-based, on-demand service.
Image source – Gapingvoid
If tech problems don’t exist, launching an app to make my services available is piece of cake.
Solving (and predicting) people’s problems does the trick.
Linchpin – a person or thing that is the most important part of an organization, a plan, etc., because everything else depends on them or it.
What/Who is the linchpin of your activity?
The linchpin of happiness = a new spring?
Trees in the arms of Spring by Vincent Van Gogh.