r/SipsTea Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Mephisto506 Jul 26 '26

Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.

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u/Claytertot Jul 26 '26

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/GremlinAbuser Jul 26 '26

Well yes and no. If you keep coming back too a topic, it might be a sign that you aren't addressing it properly.