| 单词 | too many cooks spoil the broth |
| 释义 | Idioms and Phrases with Too many cooks spoil the brothtoo many cooks spoil the broth Too many persons involved in managing an activity can ruin it, as in Without a conductor, every player had an idea for how the music should go—too many cooks spoil the broth. This expression alludes to each of many cooks adding something to a soup, which finally tastes awful. It was already considered a proverb in 1575 (by George Gascoigne in The Life of P. Care). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Too many cooks spoil the brothWhen too many people work together on a project, the result is inferior. Words nearby Too many cooks spoil the brothtoolshed, tool steel, tool subject, tool up, toom, Too many cooks spoil the broth, too many irons in the fire, Toombs, Toomer, too much of a good thing, toon The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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