English Dictionary

rob Peter to pay Paul

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) 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.

日本語の意味

本来必要な資源や利益を、他の目的（しばしば問題解決のため）に流用するが、その結果、根本的な問題は解決されず、むしろ別の問題を引き起こす行為。 / 一方の問題を解決するために他方の資源を不適切に手放すことで、全体としては改善が見られない、または他の問題が生じる状態を指す。

If management continues to rob Peter to pay Paul by shifting budgets between departments, long-term projects will suffer.

経営陣が部署間で予算を移して一方の部署の不足を補うために他部署の資源を回し続ければ、長期的なプロジェクトに支障が出るでしょう。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) 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.

[I]t would be robbing Peter to pay Paul, for the government to pay a stamp-duty to itself.

robs Peter to pay Paul （ present singular third-person ）

robbing Peter to pay Paul （ participle present ）

robbed Peter to pay Paul （ participle past ）

robbed Peter to pay Paul （ past ）