Business Before Pleasure American proverb
Work responsibilities should be prioritzed before fun
I prefer playing video games to studying, but I guess business before pleasure.
Hi, Lisa. Can we have some coffee and talk before our company's conference? - Jane: I'm afraid business before pleasure, Lisa.
To keep up with the upcoming or future trends
1. A contest, usually among women, to select the winner who is the most beautiful person.
2. An occasion when someone or businesses compete to persuade another company or organization to choose their services.
To handle one's business problems related to finance or property
Something that is the potential to earn a lot of money.
1. To start working or become active
2. To use the Internet
In Thomas Hutchinson's Diary and Letters, this proverb first appeared in the year 1767. It took a slightly different form: to business, pleasure should always give way.
To be very wet
Because of forgetting bringing an umbrella, I look like a drowned rat when it rains.