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

(a) too many cooks spoil the broth and variants: if too many people are in charge of or involved in a task, it will not be done well.With quots. 1890 and 1985, cf. the later phrase too many cooks in the kitchen at Phrases 4a(b).

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c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 111 As the common proverbe is, 'the more cookes the worse potage'.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 104 As every Cook commends his own Sauce; more then one Cook to a dish will spoile it.

1789 G. Hanger Addr. to Army 100 Consulting them perhaps might have been of use; though, in my humble opinion,..too many cooks generally spoil the broth.

1804 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool in Wks. (1812) V. 165 The more cooks the worse broth.

1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 19 Oct. 10/7 It [sc. a political conspiracy] failed because there were too many cooks in the kitchen and they spoilt the broth.

1903 Brush & Pencil 12 359 It was found that there had been misunderstandings.., so much of the work had to be done over again. It was a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.

1985 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 19 Sept. a2/4 Costello..said the city had enough prosecutors. ‘Too many cooks in the kitchen will spoil the soup,’ he said.

2019 Philippine Star (Nexis) 18 June Too many cooks spoil the broth and with all of them working independently of each other, they turned an ‘incident’ into a ‘crisis’.

单词	too many cooks spoil the broth
释义	> as lemmas too many cooks spoil the broth (a) too many cooks spoil the broth and variants: if too many people are in charge of or involved in a task, it will not be done well.With quots. 1890 and 1985, cf. the later phrase too many cooks in the kitchen at Phrases 4a(b). ΚΠ c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 111 As the common proverbe is, 'the more cookes the worse potage'. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 104 As every Cook commends his own Sauce; more then one Cook to a dish will spoile it. 1789 G. Hanger Addr. to Army 100 Consulting them perhaps might have been of use; though, in my humble opinion,..too many cooks generally spoil the broth. 1804 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool in Wks. (1812) V. 165 The more cooks the worse broth. 1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 19 Oct. 10/7 It [sc. a political conspiracy] failed because there were too many cooks in the kitchen and they spoilt the broth. 1903 Brush & Pencil 12 359 It was found that there had been misunderstandings.., so much of the work had to be done over again. It was a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. 1985 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 19 Sept. a2/4 Costello..said the city had enough prosecutors. ‘Too many cooks in the kitchen will spoil the soup,’ he said. 2019 Philippine Star (Nexis) 18 June Too many cooks spoil the broth and with all of them working independently of each other, they turned an ‘incident’ into a ‘crisis’. extracted from cookn.¹ < as lemmas
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