power lunch/breakfast
power lunch/breakfast
An important business meeting conducted over lunch (or breakfast) for exchanging high-level information or pushing one’s product or cultivating contacts. In Fast Company (April 1, 2004), an article headed “Just Don’t Call It a Power Lunch” claims it should simply be called a business lunch (or breakfast). Nevertheless, the term, dating from the second half of the 1900s, persists.
See also: breakfast, lunch, power
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
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- at (one's) doorstep
- at (one's) expense
- at expense
- at somebody's expense
- at someone's expense
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- be remembered as/for something
- be in somebody's good graces
- be in someone's good graces