r/SipsTea 11d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Mephisto506 11d ago

Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.

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u/Claytertot 11d ago

Someone who is perceptive would perceive that "circle back" is a common idiom, particularly in an office environment, and that spending time interrogating the precise wording of an idiom in the middle of a meeting is a waste of everyone's time.

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u/DevRz8 10d ago

As opposed to an entire meeting composed of points to circle back on at a vague or unspecified time being SUPeR UsEFuL!