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the ghost walks

the ghost walks phrase: the manager comes to pay the company's salaries.

Phrase

the ghost walks

  1. (humorous) The manager comes to pay the company's salaries.
    • Ask the regular staff at any theatre when the ghost walks and the chances are that the answer will be — on a Friday, ie pay night (unless that happens to be on a Thursday!).2010, John Harper, editor, Tales of Haunted Places

Origin of the ghost walks

An allusion to a scene in Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

Questions about the ghost walks

What does the ghost walks mean?
The ghost walks means the manager comes to pay the company's salaries.
What part of speech is the ghost walks?
The ghost walks is a phrase.

Words near the ghost walks in the dictionary

  1. the game is up
  2. The Gap
  3. The Gardens
  4. the genie is out of the bottle
  5. the genie's out of the bottle
  6. the ghost walks
  7. the girls are fighting
  8. The Glen
  9. the gods smile on someone
  10. the good die young
  11. the good doctor

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