be on
Synonyms be on

be on

agree to

bargain for

come to terms

make a deal

strike a bargain
Examples of use word be on Example 1An applicant was being interviewed for
admission
to a prominent medical school. "Tell me," inquired the
interviewer,
"where do you expect to be ten years from now?"
"Well,
let's see," replied the student. "It's Wednesday afternoon.
I guess
I'll
be on (synonyms of word be on above) the golf course by now."
Read more about this joke.Example 2A man had been
driving all night and by
morning was still far from his destination. He
decided to stop at the
next city he came to, and park somewhere quiet so
he could get an hour
or two of sleep. As luck would have it, the quiet
place he chose
happened to
be on (synonyms of word be on above) one of the city's major jogging
routes. No sooner
had he settled back to snooze when there came a knocking
on his
window. He looked out and saw a jogger running in place.
"Yes?"
"Excuse me, sir," the jogger said, "do you have the time?" The
man
looked at the car clock and answered, "8:15". The jogger said
thanks
and left. The man settled back again, and was just dozing off
when
there was another knock on the window and another jogger.
"Excuse me, sir, do you have the time?"
"8:25!"
The
jogger said thanks and left. Now the man could see other joggers
passing by and he knew it was only a matter of time before another o
ne
disturbed him. To avoid the problem, he got out a pen and paper
and put a
sign in his window saying, "I do not know the time!" Once
again he
settled back to sleep. He was just dozing off when there
was another
knock on the window.
"Sir, sir? It's 8:45!."
Read more about this joke.Example 3A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a
Branch
Manager were on their way to a meeting. They were driving
down a steep
mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car
failed. The car careened
almost out of control down the road, bouncing
off the crash barriers,
until it miraculously ground to a halt
scraping along the mountainside.
The car's occupants, shaken but
unhurt, now had a problem: they were
stuck halfway down a mountain in a
car with no brakes. What were they to
do?
"I know," said the
Branch Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a
Vision, formulate
a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a
process of
Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems,
and we
can
be on (synonyms of word be on above) our way."
"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That
will take far too long,
and besides, that method has never worked
before. I've got my Swiss
Army knife with me, and in no time a
t all I can strip down the car's
braking system, isolate the
fault, fix it, and we can
be on (synonyms of word be on above) our way."
"Well," said the Software
Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think
we should push the car
back up the road and see if it happens
again."
Read more about this joke.Example 4A Software Engineer, a
Hardware Engineer and a Branch
Manager were on their way to a meeting.
They were driving down a
steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes
on their car failed. The
car careened almost out of control down the
road, bouncing off the
crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a
halt scraping
along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but
unhurt, now
had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a
car with
no brakes. What were they to do?
"I know," said the Branch
Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a
Vision, formulate a Mission
Statement, define some Goals, and by a
process of Continuous
Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems,
and we can
be on (synonyms of word be on above) our
way."
"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far
too long,
and besides, that method has never worked before. I
've got my Swiss
Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can
strip down the car's
braking system, isolate the fault, fix it,
and we can
be on (synonyms of word be on above) our way."
"Well," said the Software Engineer,
"Before we do anything, I think
we should push the car back up the
road and see if it happens
again."
Read more about this joke.