每日商务英语 第40期:挖掘销售潜力

to be shaking the trees挖掘销售潜力

英文释义

To be looking for extra sales that are not easy to find, usually because there have been very few sales recently (NOTE: this is a reference to shaking fruit trees to make the fruit fall)

例句

Business has been very slow recently so we are shaking the trees by revisiting old customers who we haven't see for a long time and trying to sell our products to them.

公司近期发展缓慢，因此我们再度拜访久未见面的老客户，向他们推销产品，以挖掘销售潜力。