英语词汇“too many cooks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Elliptically, in too many cooks.

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1800 C. Dibdin Compl. Hist. Eng. Stage V. 261 Lionel and Clarissa had considerable merit; but in this piece there were too many cooks.

1833 R. H. Horne Expos. False Medium & Barriers excluding Men of Genius from Public 213 A new applicant succeeds in making his way on to the stage through the dense press of ignorance, obstinacy, and knavery of its ‘too many cooks’.

1902 H. C. Merivale Bar, Stage & Platform iv. 67 Then, as afterwards.., too many people wanted their own way. It was the old story of ‘too many cooks’, he said.

1965 D. Clewes Guide Dog xx. 156 ‘I was just going to apprehend him when I saw you'd taken over. Too many cooks,’ he muttered under his breath.

1993 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 672/2 You can't help wondering if there are simply too many cooks here, the lack of a strong editorial hand accounting both for the uneven quality of the work as a whole and for its lack of intellectual rigor.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Feb. 31 The reason the tripartite system [of regulation in the financial industry] failed was not simply a case of too many cooks.

单词	too many cooks
释义	> as lemmas too many cooks b. Elliptically, in too many cooks. ΚΠ 1800 C. Dibdin Compl. Hist. Eng. Stage V. 261 Lionel and Clarissa had considerable merit; but in this piece there were too many cooks. 1833 R. H. Horne Expos. False Medium & Barriers excluding Men of Genius from Public 213 A new applicant succeeds in making his way on to the stage through the dense press of ignorance, obstinacy, and knavery of its ‘too many cooks’. 1902 H. C. Merivale Bar, Stage & Platform iv. 67 Then, as afterwards.., too many people wanted their own way. It was the old story of ‘too many cooks’, he said. 1965 D. Clewes Guide Dog xx. 156 ‘I was just going to apprehend him when I saw you'd taken over. Too many cooks,’ he muttered under his breath. 1993 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 672/2 You can't help wondering if there are simply too many cooks here, the lack of a strong editorial hand accounting both for the uneven quality of the work as a whole and for its lack of intellectual rigor. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Feb. 31 The reason the tripartite system [of regulation in the financial industry] failed was not simply a case of too many cooks. extracted from cookn.¹ < as lemmas
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