mix business with pleasure

mix business with pleasure

To do something that brings together some aspect of one's professional life with that of one's personal life. The week-long retreat is meant to combine business with pleasure—allowing employees to relax as they would on any vacation, while doing some corporate bonding activities meant to improve workplace relations and morale. You shouldn't date a co-worker—don't mix business with pleasure.
See also: business, mix, pleasure
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be (one's) life
  • be somebody's life
  • take (one's or someone's) life in(to) (one's) (own) hands
  • take life in hands
  • take your life in your hands
  • give (one's) life
  • look on the sunny side (of life/things)
  • sunny
  • the light of (one's) life
  • the light of somebody's life
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