Headline benediction: 1. Short summary of a theme. 2. Curiously religious reference, rather suggesting that the pope or some other church dignitary has blessed the findings of a business meeting; shades of divine intervention, possibly hoping that approval from on high will improve one’s mortal business chances of success.

Green flag, that’s a ____ at this stage: 1. Go ahead; originally based on the waving of such a flag at the beginning or resumption of a motor race. 2. Rather annoying use of Grand Prix vocabulary to imbue humdrum business approvals with a touch of Formula One glamour; implication that everything is a fuel-injected race of some kind; as ever, propagated by plump salesmen who spent far too much of their youth playing with toy cars, but not learning how to drive them very well. (see Green light; Greenlit)

Hot button topic: 1. Subject that is currently fashionable or relevant. 2. Rather aggravating pseudo-technological idea that a discussion theme can somehow be summoned by the press of a button, perhaps as on a game show; even more annoying when applied to a person, as in “I think this is definitely going to press Virginia’s hot button,” a notion that could certainly be open to misinterpretation.

Information mountain: 1. Large amount of data. 2. Rather over-dramatic way of observing that there’s a lot to take in; tired trope usually uttered by a swamped marketing executive who can’t make sense of anything, possibly on account of having too small a brain; sometimes called a data mountain (see Data dump; Wood, can’t see the ___ for the trees)