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Define: "In the weeds"
What HR thinks it means:
Being immersed in the detailed, complex aspects of a project.
What it actually means:
"We have completely lost sight of the actual objective and are now arguing about font sizes."
Use it in a meeting:
"We got so far in the weeds arguing over variable naming conventions that we completely forgot to write the actual business logic."
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