"Throw a curveball"
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How "Throw a curveball" shows up at work
Used after the fact, almost always in a post-mortem or a status update, to describe whatever went wrong without assigning blame to any person. The curveball is always thrown by the situation, never by a colleague.
The vendor threw a curveball by changing the pricing structure two days before launch.
The vendor surprised us by changing the pricing structure two days before launch.
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