mission creep | Idiomator

Meaning: (politics,military,idiomatic)Gradualunplannedexpansionof theobjectives,scope, and/orcostof aproject, especially a military mission.1994September 19,Mark Thompson, “Haiti: The Past As Prelude”, inTime:Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the "mission creep," the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight.1995October 23,Elaine Sciolino, “One-Year Limit on U.S. Troops in Bosnia Now an 'Estimate'”, inNew York Times, retrieved27 May 2011:General John Shalikashvili . . . said it was important to set a target date of one year and then bring the troops home, because "in the absence of that, you find yourself staying there, and that's how very oftenmission creepcomes in."2011March 13, Ramesh Thakur, “Acting responsibly to protect Libyans”, inToronto Star, retrieved27 May 2011:The risks ofmission creepand a deepening quagmire leading to nation-building would arise only if ownership of the uprising was appropriated from the Libyans by the West, as would happen with ground troops.2020May 18, Adam Ragusea, 5:02 from the start, inThe delights and problems of watching Molto Mario‎[1], archived fromthe originalon26 July 2024:A good stand-and-stir cooking show is to the Food Network as the music video is to MTV: ancient relics of both institutions' respective original purposes, beforemission creepled them to trashy reality competition programming — apparently the entropic end-stage of all TV.

Examples:

EN: Max caught a case of mission creep.
ES: A Max le agarro el sindrome de la mision de terror.
EN: Listen, there's been a bit of mission creep.
ES: Escucha, la misión va a ser un poco asquerosa.
EN: Bit of mission creep... bit of course-correction required.
ES: La misión se estropeó un poco... Un poco, por supuesto. Se requiere corrección.
EN: No mission creep.
ES: Para que no joda la misión.
EN: And that is what we call "mission creep," Master Bruce.
ES: Y eso es lo que llamamos "misión monstruosa", amo Bruce.
EN: Sounds like mission creep.
ES: - Suena a extensión de misión.
EN: Anything else is mission creep.
ES: Lo demás no le compete.
EN: It's been a kind of "mission creep."
HI: लगा कुछ " मिसिंग" है ।
EN: In the jargon of the military it is "mission creep."
HI: आर्मी की भाषा में यह 'एयर स्ट्राइक' है
EN: Sort of a "mission creep."
HI: लगा कुछ " मिसिंग" है ।
EN: And, unfortunately, Hanni has been a victim of mission creep.
HI: दुर्भाग्य से, अनु ने मीठी को अपनी नौकरानी बना लिया है।
EN: Biles' had a classic lesson in the dangers of mission creep.
HI: हरपल प्रतिपल समय ने सिखाया
EN: Somewhere along the line, mission creep happened again and nation-building came to the fore.
HI: भारत की एक बार फिर खराब शुरुआत
EN: The problem with tools like these is they lend themselves to mission creep and abuse....
HI: ये मेरे हार्डवेयर कर रहे हैं जब यह . . .
EN: Haha...in the military that is called: "mission creep."
HI: पिपरिया: अधिकारियों का आरोपियों से. . . ये 'रिश्ता' क्या कहलाता हैं.

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