it's (a case of) the tail wagging the dog

it's (a case of) the tail wagging the dog informalused to say that an unimportant thing is wrongly controlling a situation主次颠倒，喧宾夺主

• neoplastic
• residuary legatee
• flying veins
• isocyanic acid
• campanological
• Talmid Chacham
• glias
• malac-
• shock-headed
• post-Chernobyl
• gratefulnesses
• male salve
• spliffs
• Moldau
• misbehaviors
• ASPCA.
• glad rags
• caretakers
• Slavisms
• find the lady
• punced
• out of ... time
• sphere of attraction
• minions
• cookout
• council of elders
• quibbler
• hydroexplosion
• electric car
• hurt
• soritical
• flimsily
• idolatrizes
• eat out of sb’s hand
• in petticoats
• bargain on
• work camps
• motor effect
• argue out
• pretzels
• load with
• steam drive
• terebinths
• heaters
• hydrocerussite
• aetiologic
• fenniest
• restrictions
• de visu
• software multiplexing
• A.S.C.S.
• introspections
• get someone into chancery
• throw caution to the wind(s)
• crack of dawn
• chiaroscuroes
• conichalcite
• deflecting torque
• Mabel
• conspicuous consumption
• enforest
• Bowen, Elizabeth
• nomadizing
• Abyssinian bananas
• Thcho's supernova
• tricarboxylic acid
• kashmir
• marplot
• conversational compiler
• Rainbow Bridge
• stalling angle
• boree
• formularizer
• immethodical
• philippine pesoes
• bagasses
• misrepresenter
• Husein ibn-Ali
• acontia
• izing
• Isolt
• wrist joints
• from A to Z 或 from A to Izzard
• suffering
• chrominance signal
• polatouches
• coveys
• sarcosines
• rotary boring
• Bos-Wash megalopolis
• lothness
• toy dogs
• amberoid
• joro
• cistern barometer
• science fictioneer
• Stone, Edward Durell
• Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste
• nuptiality
• ampligen