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tail wags the dog

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[tail wags the dog] Said of situations in which a minor part is in control of the whole.

* /He is just a minor employee at the firm, yet he gives everyone orders, a case of the tail wagging the dog./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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