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you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell

you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell is the alternative form of you don't dip your pen in company ink.

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

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

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You don't dip your pen in the company inkwell is the alternative form of you don't dip your pen in company ink.

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

  1. you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
  2. you could have fooled me
  3. you couldn't make it up
  4. you do you
  5. you don't dip your pen in company ink
  6. you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
  7. you don't dip your pen in the company's ink
  8. you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
  9. you don't fish off the company pier
  10. you don't get owt for nowt
  11. you don't get something for nothing

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