long screwdriver | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Interference (usually inmilitarymatters) bypoliticians.2009, Richard Holmes,Churchill's Bunker: The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London, Yale University Press:The telegraph, telephone, and then radio made it easier for governments to intervene in the conduct of military operations, inserting that 'long screwdriver'so resented by modern commanders.

Examples:

EN: A long screwdriver.
ES: Un destornillador largo.

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