Indiana

I think this is the most common situation where I would say this is if somebody like, let's say my friend, I served him a plate full of dinner.

And he finished it up in like under two minutes.

I would say, wow, you made short work of that.

Like you really finished that quickly.

Do you want some more?

It could be eating.

It could be doing a task at work.

But to make short work of something is to finish something very quickly.

I just saw that Sarah finished the entire inventory audit already.

I thought that would take her at least three days.

So inventory refers to your stock of items that you have.

Usually this would be for a business or maybe if you were working at a restaurant and you needed to take inventory, that would mean checking and making sure that you have all the ingredients in the shelves or in the fridge and, you know, oh, do we need to order

more napkins or utensils, things like that for customers.

So inventory just refers to the stuff that you have, the number of items, different items.

And then an audit typically refers to checking that everything is, how should I put it?

Everything is going right and no mistakes have been made and nothing has gone missing.

I typically hear about audits in terms of taxes or finances, but it sounds like in this case, they're just checking their inventory and making sure that, yeah, all of the items that they need are there.

Incredible.

Yes, previously, just now we've heard a work example.

But in your personal life, you can also use this for something like a chore.