Tā zài yì jiā wàiqǐ dāng jīnglǐ, shì gōngsī lǐ yǒumíng de báigǔjīng.
She is a manager at a foreign company and one of the best-known high-flyers in the office.
Tips
culture
In chapter 27 of 《西游记》 she disguises herself as a young woman, an old woman and an old man; Sun Wukong sees through each disguise and strikes, but the Tang monk takes him for a murderer and sends him away. The episode is known as 三打白骨精 "three times beating the White Bone Demon".
usage
In office slang since the 2000s, 白骨精 also stands for 白领, 骨干 and 精英 "white-collar, backbone, elite": a successful career woman, said half admiringly. Context tells it apart from the older insult.
