Guffipedia
Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense
Pregnant with the deal
Translation into plain English In an advanced state of M&A
Perpetrator JPMorgan Securities banker, in an email quoted in an SEC complaint
Usage example “We are soooo pregnant with this deal, we need a wheel-barrel [sic] to move around…. Let’s schedule the cesarian [sic], please!”
Lucy’s commentary Top marks for horrible imagery. A reader calling themselves Judge Barbier reports that they also heard it from an ex-Lehman banker.
