a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

短语

千里之堤，溃于蚁穴

别名

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

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 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.

    千里之堤，溃于蚁穴

    溃于蚁穴

    一步下错，满盘皆输

    满盘皆输

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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