to rob peter to pay paul

English - Turkish

Definition of to rob peter to pay paul in English Turkish dictionary
rob Peter to pay Paul: birine olan borcu ödemek için başkasının hakkını yemek

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Definition of to rob peter to pay paul in English English dictionary
rob Peter to pay Paul: 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..

to rob peter to pay paul

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to rob pe·ter to pay Paul

tı räb pitır tı pey pôl

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

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