Let’s take it offline

A sure sign, in an all-hands conference call , that some ingenue has made the fatal mistake of dropping through the cloudbase of platitude and cliché and into the inconvenient world of substance and detail - a grim world of intractable messiness that is immune to resolution by management theory.

If someone is foolish enough to do this, a hasty plea to "take it offline" - which by tonal inflection you might read as "let's set aside some time to drill down into detail just the two of us, sort it out, and circle back with a bit more granularity later in the day" (benign), or "ugh - let's kick the can down the road" (neutral), or "shut the fuck up" (hostile).