Quick Question
kwik KWES-chunnoun
What it means
A preamble that guarantees the exchange will be neither quick nor, strictly speaking, a question.
What it actually means
I am about to take twenty minutes you had allocated to something else.
How it is used in a sentence
"Quick question — do you have five minutes to walk me through the whole architecture?"
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
Related entries
Ping
Business BafflegabpingverbBafflegab
To send a message with no greeting, no context, and the implicit expectation of an immediate response.
Real meaningYour attention belongs to me now.
Can You See My Screen?
Business Bafflegabkan yoo see my skreenphraseBafflegab
A question asked by someone who has been presenting to a frozen image of their own desktop for four minutes.
Real meaningWe have abandoned the agenda and are now troubleshooting.