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单词 the tail wags the dog
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the tail wags the dog

The less important or subsidiary factor, person, or thing dominates a situation; the usual roles are reversed: the financing system is becoming the tail that wags the dog...
  • He must have gained a profound understanding of that old saw ‘when the tail wags the dog’ in his role as program manager for the project.
  • The goal of developing the economy has yielded to the states looking to simply alleviate their budget concerns; the tail wags the dog.
  • But he says that the conclusion as to whether the tail wags the dog or the reverse may be less straightforward.
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