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too many cooks spoil the broth Prov on n'arrive à rien quand tout le monde s'en mêle. -
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broth [brɒθ]bouillon m* * *[brɒθ], US [brɔːθ]noun bouillon m••too many cooks spoil the broth — Prov on n'arrive à rien quand tout le monde s'en mêle
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cook [kʊk]1 nouncuisinier(ère) m,f;∎ she's an excellent cook c'est une excellente cuisinière;∎ familiar chief or head cook and bottle-washer bonne f à tout faire;∎ proverb too many cooks spoil the broth = si tout le monde met son grain de sel, on n'arrive à rien∎ the meat should be cooked all the way through la viande doit être bien cuite;∎ familiar to cook sb's goose mettre qn dans le pétrin;∎ familiar this time, your goose is cooked! cette fois-ci, tu ne t'en sortira pas!∎ to cook the accounts or the books falsifier ou truquer les comptes∎ to cook a shot préparer un shoot d'héroïne∎ can you cook? est-ce que tu sais faire la cuisine?;∎ he cooks well il cuisine bien;∎ it cooks in five minutes ça cuit en cinq minutes;∎ familiar what's cooking? qu'est-ce qui se mijote?;∎ familiar figurative now we're cooking, British now we're cooking with gas! maintenant tout marche comme sur des roulettes!➲ cook up
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too\ many\ cooks\ spoil\ the\ broth — • 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 … Словарь американских идиом
Too many cooks (spoil the broth). — Too many cooks (spoil the broth). something that you say which means that if too many people try to work on the same piece of work, they will spoil it. There were so many people working on the same project, no one knew what anyone else was doing … New idioms dictionary
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 … English idioms
too many cooks spoil the broth — This means that where there are too many people trying to do something, they make a mess of it … The small dictionary of idiomes
too many cooks spoil the broth — ► too many cooks spoil the broth proverb if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well. Main Entry: ↑cook … English terms dictionary
too many cooks (spoil the broth) — informal phrase used for saying that something may be done badly if too many people try to do it together Thesaurus: ways of warning or advising someonesynonym Main entry: cook … Useful english dictionary
too many cooks spoil the broth — 1575[?] J. HOOKER Life of Carew (1857) 33 There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. 1662 B. GERBIER Principles of Building 24 When..an undertaking hath been committed to many, it caused but confusion, and therefore it is a… … Proverbs new dictionary
too many cooks spoil the broth — proverb if too many people are involved in a task, it will not be done well * * * too many cooks spoil the ˈbroth idiom (saying) if too many people are involved in doing sth, it will not be done well Main entry: ↑cookidiom … Useful english dictionary
too many cooks spoil the broth — or[stew] 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… … Dictionary of American idioms
too many cooks spoil the broth — or[stew] 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… … Dictionary of American idioms
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 … Словарь американских идиом