{"id":72771,"date":"2019-11-06T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72771"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:46:59","slug":"bankers-hours-bean-counter-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/bankers-hours-bean-counter-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Banker&#8217;s Hours | Bean Counter | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will take a look at two job-related idioms.<\/p>\n<h3>Bankers\u2019 Hours<\/h3>\n<p>If you have banker\u2019s hours, you have a relatively easy working schedule.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A career in banking can be quite stressful. In fact, most bankers don\u2019t keep bankers\u2019 hours these days.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to keep bankers\u2019 hours, don\u2019t opt for a career in sales and marketing.<\/li>\n<li>If you have young children, you should find a career with bankers\u2019 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Bean Counter<\/h3>\n<p>This is a very common slang term used to refer to an accountant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are not much of a bean counter you should consider buying software to automate your company\u2019s finances.<\/li>\n<li>We were keen on making some foreign acquisitions but the bean counters told us that we were short of money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will take a look at two job-related idioms. Bankers\u2019 Hours If you have banker\u2019s hours, you have a relatively easy working schedule. A career in banking can be quite stressful.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1830,1831,393],"class_list":["post-72771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-bankers-hours","tag-bean-counter","tag-english-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72772,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72771\/revisions\/72772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}