a camel is a horse designed by a committee
a camel is a horse designed by a committee
Committees, due to their reliance on several different opinions and viewpoints, produce results that are fragmented, inefficient, or of poor quality, especially compared to the work of a single individual or a small team. A: "Did you see this latest memo? Can you believe the asinine decisions the task force made?" B: "Well, a camel is a horse designed by a committee."
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- committee
- quot homines tot sententiae
- tot
- argue about (something)
- argue with
- argue with (one)
- argue with (someone) about (something)
- at opposite poles
- be strange bedfellows
- make strange bedfellows