Proverb
There is a Scottish proverb: "Every man's man had a man and that made Treve fall". The origin of this proverb is the following story: the governor of Threave Castle left a deputy and he a substitute by whose negligence the castle was taken and burned. The meaning of the proverb is that when people employ other people to do the business that they were entrusted with, often both neglect it.
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—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 1:5-6.