cooks Idiom

too many cooks spoil the broth

too many managers cause problems, too many chiefs... The structure failed because it was designed by a group of architects. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too many cooks spoil the stew

Idiom(s): Too many cooks spoil the stew, AND Too many cooks spoil the broth

Theme: CONTROL

A proverb meaning that too many people trying to manage something simply spoil it.
• Let's decide who is in charge around here. Too many cooks spoil the stew.
• Everyone is giving orders, but no one is following them! Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

If too many people are involved in something, it will not be done properly.

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A project is likely to go bad if managed by a multiplicity of primary movers.

A proverb. 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?"

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