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Feeding Frenzy
· phrase · finance
Salomon bond desk's grotesque Friday food ritual.
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The Friday tradition on the 1980s Salomon Brothers mortgage desk where traders ordered absurd quantities of food — hundreds of dollars of Mexican, pizza, deli — and ate themselves comatose at their turrets. Documented in Liar's Poker as a status display dressed up as lunch: the bigger the order, the bigger the swinging dick.
“Friday on the desk meant feeding frenzy — four hundred bucks of burritos and nobody picked up a phone for an hour.”
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Feeding Frenzy In A Sentence
Friday on the desk meant feeding frenzy — four hundred bucks of burritos and nobody picked up a phone for an hour.
Origin & Usage
Salomon Brothers mortgage desk ritual described in Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker (1989).
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