Desk Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Back office bean counter
• Back to school
• Bean counter
• Both sides of the desk
• Bring to the table
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Charm school
• Contingency table (A matrix of numbers illustrating the correlation of one variable with another)
• Counter intelligence
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Driving a desk
• Drunk under the table
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Facial furniture
• Get round the table
• Get your feet under the table
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• Have a chair
• High office
• Hot desking
• Hounded out of office
• In the chair
• Just another day at the office
• Land office business
• Lay the table
• Lay your cards on the table
• Never tell tales out of school
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Office politics
• Office space
• Office work
• Old school

• Old school tie
• On the table
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Out of office
• Out of the top drawer
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Put bread on the table
• Put your cards on the table
• Round table talks
• Round the table
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Step into my office
• Sunday school
• Swept into office
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Table for two
• Talk out of school
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Secretary of Defense (Nickname of David Jones)
• The Secretary of Defense (Nickname of Garry Maddox)
• The crumbs from a rich man's table
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• Top drawer
• Top table
• Under the counter
• Vegetable drawer
• What Katy Did At School