Everybody's business is nobody's business

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Everybody's business is nobody's business. 众人负责等于无人负责。

There're 4 people named everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody. There was an important job to be done, and everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that somebody would do it. Anybody could've done it, but nobody did it. Somebody got angry that because it was everybody's job. Everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done.

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everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done.

每个人都在指责某些人，任何人都能完成的事情反而没有人做。

 

SkySeraph  Sep.28th 2010  HQU XiaMen China

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