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It is easy to lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially related to the original goal.
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when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
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when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
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日本語の意味
最初に掲げた目的が見失われ、細かい事柄や本筋から外れたタスクにとらわれること / 当初の目標よりも、付随するあるいは些細な作業に執着して、主要な意図が薄れてしまう状態
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