Your manager explains the whole problem in just two sentences., beats about the bush, puts it in a nutshell, talks at cross-purposes, Your friend keeps giving you unnecessary details. You want them to finally tell you what happened., Get straight to the point!, Keep me in the loop!, Put me in the picture!, You find out from your colleagues that your boss is planning to leave the company. Nobody has officially told you., You got it straight from the horse's mouth., You got the wrong end of the stick., You heard it on the grapevine, You come back to work after two weeks on holiday and ask your colleague to tell you everything that has happened., Put me in the picture., Talk at cross-purposes., Beat about the bush, Your husband says, “Dinner with Tom is cancelled.” You think he means tonight, but he actually means next Friday., You heard it on the grapevine., You got the wrong end of the stick., You're on the same wavelength., Someone sends you an extremely confusing email and you have absolutely no idea what it means., You get it straight from the horse's mouth., You can't make head nor tail of it., You're talking at cross-purposes, You've explained to your teenager five times that they need to clean their room, but they completely ignore you., It's like getting straight to the point., It's like hearing it on the grapevine, It's like talking to a brick wall., You're working on a project with a colleague. You ask them to regularly tell you about any changes or decisions., Keep me in the loop., Put it in a nutshell., Get it straight from the horse's mouth.

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