Wag the Dog
Wag the dog
who is the dog? who is the tail? And who is wagging who?
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A standard deffionition of this euphamism would be:
To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. ... The expression comes from the saying that 'a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'.
