Timeline for Is to talk "under four eyes" a common idiom in English?
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | Kevin Fischer | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, That's good to know! Sometimes it's hard to know which phrases transfer over. | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 18:56 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @KevinFischer: That is definitely not limited to military use; it's common business speak across the Western world (including the UK) | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 10:38 | vote | accept | Virtuous Legend | ||
| Jan 27, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | Kevin Fischer | And some of us military folk use the term "off line". As in "Hey Jim, I'm going to get with you off line about the issue from before." or "Hey let's get off line and iron out that problem." | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | dave_thompson_085 | @Davor: F2F means physically together, which is usually necessary for privacy (unless you use an encrypted telephone or similar), but it is not sufficient; you can be F2F in the middle of a party, a restauarant or office or similar with many other people near enough to hear you. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | Davor | Wouldn't "face to face" be a more similar idiom? | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 17:02 | history | answered | user5267 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |