leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates

leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is w à ID à n á NDI à O. in the old days, it means that the subordinates were too powerful to command. It is a metaphor that the organization is huge and the command is ineffective. From Zuo Zhuan, the eleventh year of Zhaogong.

Analysis of Idioms

The tail is too big to drop

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attribute, etc

Examples

He was afraid that he would control the upper reaches of the river, so he was called to be the official of Guanglu, and Shen you was transferred to replace him. The 24th chapter of CAI Dongfan's the romance of northern and Southern History

The origin of Idioms

"The eleventh year of Zhaogong in Zuozhuan:" the last great will be broken, the last great will not fall, as you know. " On the Six Dynasties written by Wei Cao of the Three Kingdoms states: "the so-called end must be broken, and the end cannot be lost."