too many cooks spoil the broth
If too many people participate in a task, especially in a leading role, the task will not be done very well.
She professes to keep her own counsel; she says, and truly enough, that “Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
ADJ.
expensive, green, hot, inside, right, warm
VERB + BROTH
beef, cooks, drink, going, like, love, make, meat-based
BROTH + NOUN
blooms, friendship, morning, stock, vegetables
PREP.
between, in, in, on, with
noun
Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.
A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink. Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater. The result, according to Arab tradition, is an effective aphrodisiac.
A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.
noun — liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered
If too many people participate in a task, especially in a leading role, the task will not be done very well.
She professes to keep her own counsel; she says, and truly enough, that “Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
Alternative form of too many cooks spoil the broth.
Uncommon form of too many cooks spoil the broth.
It hath been obſerved among the French (a Nation as much addicted to changes as any) that when the charge of an undertaking hath been committed to many, it cauſed but confuſion, an
A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink. Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon
WiktionaryI do not eat meat, fish, shellfish, poultry or broth.
Tatoeba · #367973There's a fly in the noodle broth.
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Tatoeba · #430853Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Tatoeba · #459245While broth boils, friendship blooms.
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