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词组 spoil
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spoil

spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar risk the failure of a large enterprise by trying to economize on trivial things.

☞ The expression originally referred to the use of tar to keep flies off sores on sheep (ship represented a dialectal pronunciation of sheep). Ha'p'orth is a contraction of halfpennyworth.

too many cooks spoil the broth: seecook.

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