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you don't dip your pen in company ink

you don't dip your pen in company ink proverb: one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace.

Proverb

you don't dip your pen in company ink

  1. One should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace.
    • "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
    • 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

Synonyms of you don't dip your pen in company ink

Forms of you don't dip your pen in company ink

alternative formyou don't dip your pen in the company's ink
alternative formyou don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
alternative formyou don't dip your pen in the inkwell

Questions about you don't dip your pen in company ink

What does you don't dip your pen in company ink mean?
You don't dip your pen in company ink means one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace.
What part of speech is you don't dip your pen in company ink?
You don't dip your pen in company ink is a proverb.

Words near you don't dip your pen in company ink in the dictionary

  1. you could cut the air with a knife
  2. you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
  3. you could have fooled me
  4. you couldn't make it up
  5. you do you
  6. you don't dip your pen in company ink
  7. you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
  8. you don't dip your pen in the company's ink
  9. you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
  10. you don't fish off the company pier
  11. you don't get owt for nowt

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