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you don't dip your pen in the inkwell

you don't dip your pen in the 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 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 inkwell in the dictionary

  1. you couldn't make it up
  2. you do you
  3. you don't dip your pen in company ink
  4. you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
  5. you don't dip your pen in the company's ink
  6. you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
  7. you don't fish off the company pier
  8. you don't get owt for nowt
  9. you don't get something for nothing
  10. you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
  11. you don't know what you're talking about

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