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you don't dip your pen in company ink en · X

Meanings

1. One should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace.
   • It wasn't money that attracted his current wife, Madeleine Deininger, who started working for Ravenswood in 1985. . . . "We had the policy that you don't dip your pen in company ink. We stayed good friends for a long time," Peterson says. 2006 July 27, W. Blake Gray, “Ravens to Riches”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 13 Dec 2008:
   • "In my job, young hot things have been coming up to me for years," says Fletcher, the retired pilot. "You don't dip your pen in company ink." 1998 September 28, Roxanne Roberts, “Men's Bad Rep: Just a Bad Rap?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 13 Dec 2008, page A1:

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Relateds

mix business with pleasure

Synonyms

don't fish off the company dock · don't get your meat where you get your bread · don't get your honey where you make your money · you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies · you don't fish off the company pier · don't shit where you eat

Translations (9)

hu házinyúlra nem lövünk (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · cmn 兔子不吃窩邊草 /兔子不吃窝边草 (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · fr no zob in job (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · es donde se come no se caga (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · es donde tengas la olla no metas la polla (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · pt onde se ganha o pão, não se come a carne (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · fi ei pidä syödä kuormasta (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · de Bürofick bringt Unglück (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace) · yue 喺度食唔好喺度痾 /喺度食唔好喺度疴 (one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace)