TLA: 1. Three-letter acronym. 2. Rather peculiar idea of describing an acronym with an acronym, with barely any gain in brevity; often favoured by large corporations who love to suggest that they are ‘in the know’ when you clearly aren’t; annoying habit of lawyers, accountants, and other so-called specialists, of generating an impenetrable argot to obfuscate what they are up to. (see Obfuscation)
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Dog food, eat your own: 1. Experience the (bad) result of something you initiated yourself. 2. Canine-influenced phrase suggestive of being on all fours in a humiliating posture, and consuming something pretty nasty. (see Hoist with one’s own petard)
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Fiscal juggling: 1. Moving money from one part of the financial year to another. 2. Incessant gerrymandering of spreadsheets to confuse anyone and everyone; legerdemain, literally lightness of hand; adding costs to reduce profit; removing costs to increase profit; changing financial years; shifting from quarters to tertials or vice versa; deliberately generating multi-sheet spreadsheets with hidden layers in order to obfuscate; pursuing opacity at all costs; using arcane financial language to disguise the working reality; all in all, a huge battery of techniques to prevent anyone understanding the monetary truth. (see Above board; Aims; Balloon has gone up, the; Baseline; BHAG; Black arts; Bottom line; Calibrate; Cook the books; Crunch the numbers; Markers, put some____down; Massage the numbers; Numbers, the; Obfuscate; Quantitative easing; Quarter; Re-baselining; Tertial)
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Catastrophize: 1. Turn something into a catastrophe, presumably when it is nothing of the sort. 2. A verbal catastrophe in its own right, yet another example of turning a noun into a verb by adding the –ize suffix; in all probability says more about the parlous state of the person uttering it than the situation itself. (see Diarize, Incentivize, Internalize, -ize, Maximize, Mondayize, Optimize, Prioritize, Productize, Professionalize, Utilize)
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Chatty dolphin: 1. Marine cetacean mammal that talks a lot. 2. Dreadful expression dreamt up by online technorati to describe volume of website comment, as in “This site has more clicks than a chatty dolphin, Sean.”