American Idioms and Expressions

Left Hand Doesn't Know What The Right Hand Is Doing Idiom

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Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
What does Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing mean?
If the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, then communication within a company, organisation, group, etc, is so bad that people don't know what the others are doing.

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