drinking from a firehose

drinking from a firehose

/ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ frɒm ə ˈfaɪərhoʊz/

Office Idioms

receiving far more information than one can absorb at once

“Onboarding week felt like drinking from a firehose — so many tools to learn.”

Origin: Vivid metaphor for overwhelming information flow; widely used in tech and finance