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Let's circle back to that

Meaning

A professional way of saying let's put this topic on hold for now and talk about it later. It is the preferred language of corporate meetings.

Professional, diplomatic

Used in a sentence

  • That is an interesting idea, but let's circle back to that later.
  • I don't have the data yet, so let's circle back to that next week.
  • Let's circle back to that during the quarterly review.

The backstory

Corporate jargon that rose to prominence in the late 20th century. It is designed to keep a meeting on schedule without explicitly dismissing a contributor.

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