🗓️ Idiom: Iron Out the Wrinkles (v)
💬 Meaning
- To solve small problems or remove difficulties in a process.
- It’s often used when refining a plan, agreement, or system to make everything run smoothly.
🧠 Example Sentences
- We still need to iron out the wrinkles in the new shipping process before launch.
- The teams met to iron out the wrinkles in the supplier contract.
- Let’s iron out the wrinkles now so we don’t face issues during delivery.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from ironing clothes to make them smooth. In business, “wrinkles” represent small issues or complications that need to be smoothed out to improve performance or efficiency.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Before going live, the project manager scheduled a meeting to __________.
Answer
iron out the wrinkles
2. Choose the correct meaning of “iron out the wrinkles”:
A) To stop a project from moving forward
B) To fix minor issues or improve a process
C) To cancel a decision
Answer
B) To fix minor issues or improve a process
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“We need to solve the small problems in our distribution plan.”
→ Change the sentence using: iron out the wrinkles
Answer
We need to iron out the wrinkles in our distribution plan.
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