nothing like having a man on the spot to smooth the way
Related Translations:
县官: county magistrate 短语和例子县官不如现管。 nothing like having a man on the spot to smooth the way.; the official sitting in the county seat can't order people around like one sitting right here
牛马不如: be more to be pitied than cows and horses; live worse than beasts of burden
不如慢: to think oneself not so much inferior among manifest superiors