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- DictionaryThe tail wags the dog
- ▪ the less important or subsidiary factor, person, or thing dominates a situation; the usual roles are reversed
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Wag the dog is, as a political term, the act of creating a diversion from a damaging issue usually through military force. It stems from the generic use of the term to mean a small and seemingly unimportant entity (the tail) controls a bigger, more important one (the dog). It is usually used by a politician when they are in a scandal, in hopes that people forget about the scandal and focus on the ... Wikipedia