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What Does The Phrase " Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth" Mean?

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    It means there's too many people doing a job that can be effectively done by only one person.
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    Avpy  

    answered 3 years ago

      Many women have their own idea of how a recipe should be cooked how long it should be cooked and what ingredients belong in it. So sometimes for example like on holidays or at parties when a large number of people get together and the women gather to cook, it gets confusing.

      One person might start cooking something, and then another thinks it needs something added. Then another one gives her opinion, and on and on. Suddenly the original dish is some strange concoction. Thus they say too many cooks spoil the broth. The combined efforts of the group end up with something that is not so peasant to eat.

      I think the same term is often applied to situations not related to cooking. In essence often there are too many people telling other what to do, so no one really knows how things are suppose to be.

      A good example would be five different people showing a young child the proper way to tie a pair of shoes. Maybe all of them have a way that works for them, but the child might get so confused by the different ways that he or she can not do it in the end.
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      Evanjames  

      answered 3 years ago

        It probably means that if too many people get involved in a certain job which can certainly be done by a single person then the job gets ruined.
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        Sripathi  

        answered 3 years ago

        Give me a short speech on "TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH
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        Guest  

        answered 8 months ago

        The phrase TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH means too many people do one task when 1 can do it just as well
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        Guest  

        answered 6 months ago

          Thinking about it that kind of goes against the "monkeys and a typewriter".
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          Irtimixd  

          answered 2 years ago

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