when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp (English, proverb)
expansion: when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
Senses:
glosses: 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.
Forms: