wag the dog

Of course, it may now be too late to wag the dog.

Until then, the tail will continue to wag the dog.

The question is, does the tail now wag the dog?

It seems a case of the tail wagging the dog.

It does not mean the tail is wagging the dog.

We're pretty good at what we do but the tail should never wag the dog, really.

Now it is time for the tail to stop wagging the dog.

We'll be the tail that wags the dog pretty soon.

I agree: The tail needs to stop wagging the dog!

Perhaps, since free agency, the tail is now wagging the dog.

But we have an old expression: You can't let the tail wag the dog.

One feels sometimes that the tail is wagging the dog.

But it feels a little bit like the tail wagging the dog.

The tail had gotten more than big enough to wag the dog.

We have to be careful about television because the tail could wag the dog.

Might the tail of potential profits be wagging the dog?

It appears to me as if the tail is trying to wag the dog.

But then, of course, what else is to be expected when it's the tail that's wagging the dog?

A small segment of Congress seems to be the tail wagging the dog.

To change the metaphor, it is the tail wagging the dog.

In British politics, the tail usually ends up wagging the dog.

On a matter of this importance, the tail must not wag the dog.

I suspect this is a bad case of the tale wagging the dog.

He was not going to allow the tail (west) to wag the dog.

But they key lesson of 2008 is that the tail should not wag the dog.