Bureau Phrases

Phrases

• Back office bean counter
• Both sides of the desk
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Driving a desk
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• High office
• Hounded out of office
• Just another day at the office
• Land office business
• Office politics
• Office space
• Office work
• Out of office
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Step into my office
• Swept into office
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• We never sleep (Pinkerton's Detective Agency advertising slogan)
• Welfare agency