getting one's priorities backwards 本末顛倒 [ほんまつてんとう] /(n,vs,adj-no) failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of)/putting the cart before the horse/mistaking the cause for the end/mistaking the insignificant for the essential/getting one's priorities backwards/ ------- 本末転倒 [ほんまつてんとう] /(n,vs,adj-no) failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of)/putting the cart before the horse/mistaking the cause for the end/mistaking the insignificant for the essential/getting one's priorities backwards/ |