尾大不掉 meaning in Chinese
leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates; subordinate growing too powerful; the superior cannot command inferiors.; the tail is too big to wag -- of encumbrances, such as dependencies which become too much for the parent state.; the tail wagging the dog; (of an organization) too cumbersome to be effective
Examples
- The tail is too big to wag .
尾大不掉。