The daily grind

Vocabulary related to “the daily grind” through Ed Stein’s comic strip

The daily grind

• If you refer to routine tasks or activities as the grind, you mean they are boring and take up a lot of time and effort. (INFORMAL)

• The daily grind of government is done by Her Majesty's Civil Service.

• Life continues to be a terrible grind for the ordinary person.

• N-SING: oft adj N disapproval

The daily grind

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The daily grind

Slang: “Killer” stock options

• Acciones de excelente rendimiento, rompedoras:

• Examples: Killer application, killer app

It’s an on line startup• On line startup company• (Commerce) an on line business enterprise that

has been launched recently• Start-Up Company• A company in its earliest stage of development,

usually before its IPO. Start-up companies concentrate on product development and build-up of capitalization. Nearly all start-up companies operate at a loss, at least at first. Some start-ups go through a period where they have no revenue at all. Start-ups spend their time perfecting their business plans and developing products that will eventually be sold on the open market. Most start-ups rely on venture capital or loans to continue operations during this phase. See also: Payout period, Dot-com bubble.

Not tied to an old-line brick and mortar company

• Tied to/tide up • tied up • tied up • If someone or something is tied up, they are busy or being used,

with the result that they are not available for anything else. (INFORMAL)

• He's tied up with his new book. He's working hard, you know.• More and more old people have capital tied up in a house.• ADJ-GRADED: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ with/in n

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• Old-line:  adhering to traditional policies or practices :  conservative• brick–and–mortar•  adjective•  relating to or being a traditional business serving customers in a building

as contrasted to an online business <a brick–and–mortar store>• brick–and–mortar or bricks–and–mortar• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brick-and-mortar

This is “a no-brainer”

• no-brain·er (nō′brā′nər)• n. Informal• Something so simple or easy as to

require no thought.• something that requires or involves

little or no mental effort.• "the enormous popularity of his TV

show makes the book a no-brainer for him"

They are ran out of fundings

• Definition of RUN OUT• intransitive verb• 1• a :  to come to an end :  expire <time ran out>• b :  to become exhausted or used up <the gasoline ran out>• 2• :  to jut out• transitive verb• funding • funding • Funding is money which a government or organization provides for a

particular purpose.• They hope for government funding for the scheme.• Many colleges have seen their funding cut.• N-UNCOUNT

• (c) HarperCollins Publishers.

To run out of something

• run out runs out; running out; ran out• If you run out of something, you have no

more of it left.• They have run out of ideas.• We're running out of time.• By now the plane was running out of fuel.• We had lots before but now we've run

out.• PHR-V The form run is used in the present

tense and is also the past participle of the verb

They closed down yesterday

• close·down•  noun \ˈklōz-ˌdauEn\• : an occurrence or situation in which

work is stopped for a long time or permanently in a business, factory, etc.

• : the end of television or radio broadcasts for the day

Sources

• The free dictionary• Merriam Webster dictionary• Collings dictionary• Slideshow by C Martin.