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Native english speakers, please help - what’s “desk wisdom”?


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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 60 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 1 month, 1 week ago (31 minutes after post)

I have never heard of that.

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Arkia Valkair offline Verified User (7 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (34 minutes after post)

I have never heard that phrase before, and Google didn’t seem to come up with anything so >.>

Clearly this means it does not exist. Whoever you heard say it is losing their mind or something…

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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 60 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 1 month, 1 week ago (35 minutes after post)

I agree. It certainly isn’t a common English expression.

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Gynan Tonix offline Verified User (6 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (37 minutes after post)

it could mean : school wisdom. meaning theoretical, without any practical experience.

as in opposed to ’street smart’

just a thought.

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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 60 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 1 month, 1 week ago (40 minutes after post)

Or it could mean cute/smart saying/quotes from the desk of … (someone famous)

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rob020 offline Verified User (5 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (58 minutes after post)

Thanks everyone for your help, really appreciated!…

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Good ole boy offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 20 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

My personal interpretation of the phrase is knowing how to stay, or at least appear busy at your desk. I immediately thought of the expression: “The devil finds work for idle hands.”

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rob020 offline Verified User (5 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (1 hour, 8 minutes after post)

mills wrote:
My personal interpretation of the phrase is knowing how to stay, or at least appear busy at your desk. I immediately thought of the expression: “The devil finds work for idle hands.”

Interesting, thanks

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