Money Talk

Your company is livestreaming a presentation about its financial position to its global employees and you need to clarify the meaning of some metaphors mentioned by the speakers.

For each of the sentences below, which paraphrase captures its meaning correctly?

The company's flow of liquidity is clogged because the CEO siphoned everything into underwater projects.

But, once we shovel what's left into a pile, we'll spread it equally to cement our three business lines.

And the company will also salt away whatever it doesn’t ladle out from its windfall.

Tags

  • AI-resistant
  • English Comprehension
  • Figures of Speech
  • Public
  • Hard

Information

Difficulty: Hard

Duration: 3 min

Author: Darryl Stephens

Score Distribution

% of candidates
0-33%
34-67%
68-100%
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