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Old 25-Sep-2006, 14:48
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Default Re: to focus on the issue at hand
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Originally Posted by me78 View Post
Hi, just one more question:
The Delphi method helps the participants to focus on the issue at hand.
What does this mean, to get information from the experts

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Aha - yet another Parts of the Body idiom. The issue 'at hand' is the issue uppermost in the minds of all the relevant people. For example, at a business meeting the 'issue at hand' would be fairly high on the agenda. Don't confuse 'at hand' with the idiomatic usage 'to hand' - within easy reach: "I think I'm free at that time, but I don't have my diary to hand".

(I wonder whether I thought of that example because I was wondering whether I should have used 'agenda' in my first example. This is a false friend: 'agenda' doesn't mean 'diary'; 'an agenda' is a list of things to be discussed. The word 'agenda' is also used figuratively to mean 'something that can be discussed': "Don't mention our previous relationship: that's just not on the agenda".)

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