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Full-tilt boogie: 1. All out; 100%; full-throttle, possibly of dancing to heavy rock music. 2. Ill-advised diving in with both feet; little or no preparation, followed by a no-holds-barred assault; thundering into a meeting blind, firing off a range of deeply-held prejudices, only to discover that you are woefully under-briefed. (see Bull in a china shop; Come a cropper)

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Drink the Kool-Aid: 1. To mindlessly adopt the dogma of a group or company without really understanding why or questioning intentions sufficiently. 2. Reference to an American fruit drink, purported to have been laced with cyanide and given to the followers of the Jim Jones cult at the Jonestown massacre in 1978 (unverified and often disputed); intensely annoying capacity of enthralled staff to parrot the company line; typical examples include a rabid and irrational hatred of any competitive product, an unshaken belief that their product is always the best (despite persistent evidence to the contrary), and an inevitable adoption of all company jargon, even at home and with mates in the pub.

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Degrow: 1. Shrink; decline. 2. Disgraceful attempt to suggest that something is going up rather than down – usually sales or profits; another in the large lexicon of words attaching the de- prefix to an otherwise positive word in the vain hope that no one will notice the bad news. (see Decruit; Dejob; Delayering; Destaff)