show and tell
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Tan also allegedly told Apple employees to bring physical components, such as batteries, circuit boards, and other parts, to interviews for "show and tell" sessions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
For years, the volume — a 19th-century French treatise on the human soul — was brought out for show and tell, and sometimes, according to library lore, used to haze new employees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
"Last year in school, he made a show and tell of going in an ambulance."
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2022
“I always meant to meet him at a show and tell him how important his work was to me, but never did. Dammit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
As to the art of pitching, of course, the old man could show and tell, but he could no longer do.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
