Guffipedia
Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense
Real-time chops
Translation into plain English Skill
Perpetrator Wall Street Journal job ad
Usage example “The Editor also needs the real-time chops to handle posts by our two person team of market Maniacs (fast-metabolism, digital-first market chroniclers who produce inventive, high-intellect coverage of markets and the things that move them - as they happen).” (Spotted by A Williams)
Lucy’s commentary In Britain the only things allowed to call themselves chops come from dead animals and are sold in butchers shops. In the US the word has long meant skill; while I can only admire someone with real time chops to deal with high-intellect maniacs, it makes me somewhat disinclined to buy the WSJ.
