a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

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谚语
  1. An organization is only as strong or powerful as its weakest person; a group of associates is only as strong as its laziest member.

词形变化

a chain is as strong as its weakest link alternative a chain is no stronger than its weakest link alternative

词源

First appeared in Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, published in 1786. The full idiom a chain is no stronger than its weakest link was first printed in Cornhill Magazine in 1868.
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