These are, to use political jargon, the green shoots.
Recently, he told the editors in his shop, in effect, to cut the shoveling, and gave his copy desk the green light to delete business jargon.
I still see far too many leaflets, articles and press releases, however, whether from the Green party or from green pressure groups, that are full of impenetrable jargon, far removed from the everyday conversations in pubs, cafes and workplaces.
This is golfing jargon for hitting the ball on to and across the green into the hole, although in my case I feel this will prove a bridge too far.
So he has no intention of giving up the jargon "quantitative easing" – which he's now given the Bank of England the green light to do – because it masks the inconvenient truth that, yes, the government is indeed printing money.
But the final green or red light for the project - the "main gate" in the jargon - will come next year.
The traditional acid test of fairness – or "progressivity" in the jargon – is shown by the black line on Chart 1.B (ignore the green bars, which merely cloud the picture).
Attendees of First Tuesday's monthly gatherings wore color-coded lapel pins: red for dot-commers, green for venture capitalists, yellow for lurkers merely basking in the exchange of so much jargon.
The EU's lofty if not very green ideal is to tie all of Europe together by a new web of motorways, or, in EU jargon, "transport corridors".
