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What does tail wagging the dog mean?

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Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A minor or secondary part of something controlling or dominating the whole or the main part
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Eventually, this can result in a situation where the organization knows more and more about management and less and less about development, a classic case of the tail wagging the dog.
It seems to me that saying you can jam in so much Canadian content is like the tail wagging the dog.
At the moment the situation is very much akin to the tail wagging the dog.
In a word, these were all expensive and anti-democratic shenanigans, the tail wagging the dog.
It's hard to tell with this omnishambles government if the dog is wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog.
It moves fairly slowly up and down, and it's not the tail wagging the dog here.

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