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food words
Sweeten the pot
Add incentives or improve the terms of a deal
Maehama-san had to sweeten the pot considerably to get the client to sign the contract.
Sour on
Turn negative, lose interest
Ando-san was quite enthusiastic about leading the project but management had already soured on it and quietly killed it.
Spice up
Make more interesting
The research report was pretty bland until Rie-san spiced it up with some new graphics.
Take it with a grain of salt
Don't believe all of it
Remember that Ito-san tends to exaggerate so take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Pepper with
Dot with, intersperse with
Hatanaka-san's pitch was peppered with statistics on the purchasing patterns of the client's target market.