| 单词 | too many cooks in the kitchen |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoo many cooks in the kitchen (b) Originally and chiefly U.S. too many cooks in the kitchen: so many people are involved in or trying to take charge of the situation in question that there is little or no chance that it will be managed or done well.This phrase may have developed directly from the earlier phrase too many cooks spoil the broth at Phrases 4a(a) (cf. quots. 1890 and 1985 at Phrases 4a(a) at that sense), or be an elaboration of earlier elliptical use in too many cooks at Phrases 4b. ΚΠ 1837 Elyria Republican in Daily Ohio Statesman 30 Dec. The Governor..very well knows that the present pecuniary difficulties of the country were produced by an expansion and contraction of the currency... But there were too many cooks in the kitchen. The message is bloated with bankism. 1931 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 11 Sept. 2/2 The farmers complain bitterly of lack of assistance and charge that this lack is due to too many cooks in the kitchen. 1982 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 4 a/4 Things can get out of hand with too many cooks in the kitchen, as we have all learned. 2007 B. Brandl et al. Elder Abuse Detection & Intervention Introd. p. xvi Like any multidisciplinary team, we balanced the number of participants needed to get the job done versus having ‘too many cooks in the kitchen.’ < as lemmas |
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