May 19, 2021 12:15
3 yrs ago
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English term
Abraham
You’ve had the bold beaten out of you
English
Bus/Financial
Management
Does it mean you are trying to be bold in your organization?
The context is:
Unless your organization is pint-sized or truly exceptional, it probably tilts to the right side of the scale. That’s why you feel beleaguered. You’ve had the bold beaten out of you. “Epic quest,” you snort. “I’m just trying to make the quarter.”
The context is:
Unless your organization is pint-sized or truly exceptional, it probably tilts to the right side of the scale. That’s why you feel beleaguered. You’ve had the bold beaten out of you. “Epic quest,” you snort. “I’m just trying to make the quarter.”
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Responses
+5
5 mins
Charlotte Fleming
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
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English
United Kingdom
Travel, wine and scuba specialist.
Native in: English (Variants: Scottish, British)
Works in: Italian to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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4
Selected
You've lost your boldness
It means that the boldness and enthusiasm you had when you started your business has gone, "beaten out of you" by lack of success, strong competition or whatever other cause; you're just trying to get by, to "make the quarter" as the text says.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
15 mins
You’re initiative has been quashed
Any spark of creative thinking and proposals has been stifled.
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Note added at 16 mins (2021-05-19 12:31:36 GMT)
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Sorry: Your initiative has been quashed.
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Note added at 22 mins (2021-05-19 12:37:05 GMT)
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Or stamped out
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Note added at 16 mins (2021-05-19 12:31:36 GMT)
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Sorry: Your initiative has been quashed.
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Note added at 22 mins (2021-05-19 12:37:05 GMT)
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Or stamped out
Peer comment(s):
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yolanda Speece
48 mins
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Thank you Yolanda.
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writeaway
: YOUR!!! you're = you are
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True, that. Hence my correction above. Wish I could have edited.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, not just "lost", but quashed/stifled. Correction (at 16 mins!!!) noted BTW
8 hrs
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Thank you Yvonne.
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+1
1 hr
yolanda Speece
Native in English
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English
Efficiency and effectiveness!!!
Native in: English 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English
you've had the bold beaten out of you
Basically what they are telling you is that the organization is one where you have to side with the "corporate culture" or you won't last there.
If you want to survive, you cannot do anything to stand out. You cannot grow but you can adapt to what the company wants. If you can do that good. if not, find another place.
If you can't adapt to corporate culture you will become like what they want not what you want and you may lose who you are!
You will have the bold beaten out of you. In essence you will be stifled and smothered. You will become someone else that may not be something you want..
If you want to survive, you cannot do anything to stand out. You cannot grow but you can adapt to what the company wants. If you can do that good. if not, find another place.
If you can't adapt to corporate culture you will become like what they want not what you want and you may lose who you are!
You will have the bold beaten out of you. In essence you will be stifled and smothered. You will become someone else that may not be something you want..
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Orkoyen (X)
4 mins
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+2
4 hrs
Robert Forstag
United States
United States
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
United States
Translating words, preserving meaning
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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8
Your experience in the organization has led you to think, feel, and act like a cringing milquetoast.
The boldness hasn't merely been "lost" (Option 1), but "beaten out of you." These are two very different realities.
Apart from the glaring error already pointed out, the second option fails to address the emotional and cognitive components involved here (i.e., it is not only a matter of failing to *act* - initiative -but of how the person *feels* inside and *thinks* about themselves).
Finally, the third option is a near *verbatim* repetition of the posted phrase, bereft of explanatory value.
My suggestion includes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional components implicit in the posted phrase.
Apart from the glaring error already pointed out, the second option fails to address the emotional and cognitive components involved here (i.e., it is not only a matter of failing to *act* - initiative -but of how the person *feels* inside and *thinks* about themselves).
Finally, the third option is a near *verbatim* repetition of the posted phrase, bereft of explanatory value.
My suggestion includes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional components implicit in the posted phrase.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Orkoyen (X)
: Although, the glaring error was corrected before the alarm went off.
5 hrs
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You are a good sport! Thanks for the “agree.” 😊
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| agree |
Pavle Perencevic
: or... "act like a quivering pushover" :)
1 day 1 hr
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Or, perhaps, “...like a wilting pansy.” Thank you, Pavle. 😊
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AllegroTrans
: Far too US-slanted and probably unintelligble on a world scale; I have never even heard of a milquetoast
5 days
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