mix business with pleasure

English

Verb

mix business with pleasure (third-person singular simple present mixes business with pleasure, present participle mixing business with pleasure, simple past and past participle mixed business with pleasure)

1. To do something pleasurable that is related to one's work.

Translations

to do something pleasurable that is related to one's work

• Finnish: sekoittaa työ ja huvi
• French: joindre l’utile à l’agréable
• Hungarian: összeköti a kellemest a hasznossal (hu)
• Polish: łączyć przyjemne z pożytecznym (pl) (literally “to connect the pleasurable with the useful”)

See also

• business before pleasure
• don't get your meat where you get your bread

Further reading

• “mix business with pleasure”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mix business with pleasure” (US) / “mix business with pleasure” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.