rob peter to pay paul

listen to the pronunciation of rob peter to pay paul
English - Turkish
birine olan borcu ödemek için başkasının hakkını yemek
English - English
To use resources that legitimately belong to or are needed by one party in order to satisfy a legitimate need of another party, especially within the same organization or group; to solve a problem in a way that makes another problem worse, producing no net gain

OMB decided that a large part of the money would come from other health programs for poor women and children. That penny-pinching tactic sparked an outcry. . . . Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri denounced the plan as pitting one city's babies against another city's babies. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who chairs the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, said it amounted to robbing Peter to pay Paul..

rob peter to pay paul

    Hyphenation

    rob pe·ter to pay Paul

    Turkish pronunciation

    räb pitır tı pey pôl

    Pronunciation

    /ˈräb ˈpētər tə ˈpā ˈpôl/ /ˈrɑːb ˈpiːtɜr tə ˈpeɪ ˈpɔːl/

    Etymology

    () The expression refers to times before the Reformation when Church taxes had to be paid to St. Paul's church in London and to St. Peter's church in Rome; originally it referred to neglecting the Peter tax in order to have money to pay the Paul tax.
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