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“Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.”
-- Harry S. Truman

The idiom step on toes usually means to unintentionally offend someone by encroaching on their territory, challenging their authority, or trespassing on their rights. It implies doing something that is their responsibility or prerogative and seizing their power. Remember: To step on their toes they have to be right there, whether one realizes it or not.

Just a couple of more things to know:

1. How Not to Step on Toes


• Know the Hierarchy: Understand everyone’s roles and responsibilities. Don’t enter someone else’s domain without an invitation.


• Talk and Get Feedback: Before making big moves, discuss your plans with others, especially if they affect the work and/or are colleagues (be they peers, superiors, or subordinates). Teamwork can

Pop quiz, hotshot! What holiday features revellers dressed in fancy costumes, all enjoying wild parties, treats, parades, festive decorations, lots of fun -- aside from a handful of religious weirdos who hate the holiday with all their might and want to have it banned? Yes, of course it's Pride -- but it's also Halloween! And a lot of things that make Halloween popular are why some LGBTQ people call Halloween "gay Christmas." 

A lot of this is because Halloween was one of the rare holidays where

restricted area

1. An area (land, sea, or air) in which there are special restrictive measures employed to prevent or minimize interference between friendly forces.


2. An area under military jurisdiction in which special security measures are employed to prevent unauthorized entry. See also restricted areas (air).

(JP 3-34)

restricted areas (air)