forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp
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forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp (and numerous variations thereof)
- (idiomatic) To lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially/orthogonally related to the initial objective.
