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To make one\'s numbers

English translation: achieve one\'s targets

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English term or phrase:To make one\\\'s numbers
Selected answer:achieve one\'s targets
Entered by: Mohamed Fouda

22:22 Mar 6, 2019
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: To make one\'s numbers
I said to Noah, tell me specifically! What the Four Seasons is doing that you would say to me you love your job?
And again, without skipping a beat, throughout the day managers would walk past him and ask him how he is doing. Ask him if there's anything that he needs to do his job better. Not just his manager. Any manager!
And then he said, I also worked for a different hotel. And there, the managers walk past me and catch me if I'm doing something wrong. Their, they're always overbearing and trying to make sure that I make my numbers. He says, there, I just like to get through the day, keep my head below the radar and just collect my paycheck.
Mohamed Fouda
Egypt
Local time: 04:15
achieve one's targets
Explanation:
That's what it means. It's a strange text, though - not very well written or easy to follow.
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
Thank you all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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5 +7achieve one's targets
philgoddard


  

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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
to make one's numbers
achieve one's targets


Explanation:
That's what it means. It's a strange text, though - not very well written or easy to follow.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 119
Grading comment
Thank you all!
Notes to answerer
Asker: The speaker is Simon Sinek, and that's what he said at a summit. Sorry for the poor transcription.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carol OConnor (X)
13 mins
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: English is obviously non-native with grammar and spelling errors
15 mins
agree  Tony M: It also looks like a transcription of impromptu dialogue, I would guess possibly by an African-American
23 mins
agree  JohnMcDove: I guess "financial" targets, right?
3 hrs
  -> Not necessarily.
agree  Sina Salehi
3 hrs
agree  Björn Vrooman: Speaker is a native. TBF, this whole must-not-be-an-ENS thing is getting a bit annoying. ENS make mistakes too. Google Paul Brians. And thanks asker; first thought it was Ramon Nuez.//@writeaway Watch his videos. It's a transcription error.
4 hrs
agree  writeaway: The lack of subject verb inversion in the 2nd sentence definitely points to non-native writing. Native Anglos don't even speak like that
1 day 25 mins
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