when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp

English

when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp

It is easy to lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially related to the original goal.
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Numerous variants exist, using other body parts ("eyes", "ears", "ass"/"arse", "ankles", "armpits", etc) in place of "neck" and replacing "initial objective" with just "objective" or with "mission", "goal" etc.

单词	when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
释义	when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp English Proverb when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp It is easy to lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially related to the original goal. For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. Usage notes Numerous variants exist, using other body parts ("eyes", "ears", "ass"/"arse", "ankles", "armpits", etc) in place of "neck" and replacing "initial objective" with just "objective" or with "mission", "goal" etc. See also yak shaving bikeshedding
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