cobra effect

English

Etymology

From an anecdote about the British rule of colonial India, according to which the British government offered a bounty for dead cobras, which eventually led to enterprising people breeding more cobras for the income.

Noun

cobra effect

  1. The situation where an attempted solution makes the original problem worse.
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