too\ many\ cooks\ spoil\ the\ stew

too\ many\ cooks\ spoil\ the\ stew
• too many cooks spoil the broth
• too many cooks spoil the stew
proverb
A project is likely to go bad if managed by a multiplicity of primary movers.

When several people acted all at once in trying to reshape the company's investment policy, Tom spoke up and said, "Let me do this by myself! Don't you know that too many cooks spoil the broth?"


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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