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Old 29-Feb-2004, 08:14
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Originally Posted by RonBee
I would say that "Two heads are better than one" means that two (or more) can come up with more ideas than one person. There is another one that means the opposite: too many cooks spoil the broth. That means that too many people "helping" can lead to a bad result. (Presumably, not everybody knows what everybody else is doing.) The two aren't really opposites since one is about thinking up ideas and the other is about participating in some sort of activity.

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An opposite idiom of "Too many cooks spoil the broth" is "There is safety in numbers." The latter means the more people the better.

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