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This pair of coworkers are very critical of his choice and are saying that he doubled down in a negative way.

They do not think he should be doing this.

And I wanted to add here that if the opposite scenario happened, like if the CEO immediately said, oh, I'm sorry, everybody, you know, it was an oversight.

This wasn't a good idea.

I didn't realize that it was important for everybody to wear more casual clothes.

clothing and I'm going to revise my decision here.

You could say that he folded, he folded under pressure or just he folded and he changed his mind, right?

So when you quickly change your mind under pressure, you might say that he folded.

I think this is also related to gambling or card playing.

There's so many expressions in English coming from sports, like particularly baseball.

And yeah, it seems like gambling is a big one too.

So it's a good resource for idioms as being interested in sports and gambling.

Absolutely, Andrew.

It was fun to talk about these expressions.

Bye, everybody.

I am good, Andrew.

It's quite late my time here.

I've had a long day, but I'm excited to talk about one of my favorite topics, language learning, with you, somebody I know also really appreciates this topic.

So I can't wait to get started.

Absolutely.