Idiom
kill trees
Meaning
To use paper.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please read this online so we do not kill trees.”
“The company decided to go paperless to stop killing trees and save money on office supplies.”
“By insisting on printing every single draft of the report, the manager was unnecessarily killing trees despite the availability of digital alternatives.”
Examples
simple
“Please read this online so we do not kill trees.”
contextual
“The company decided to go paperless to stop killing trees and save money on office supplies.”
complex
“By insisting on printing every single draft of the report, the manager was unnecessarily killing trees despite the availability of digital alternatives.”
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