revolving-door

revolving-door
   1. unduly lenient and ineffective
   It describes the treatment of criminals who, soon after capture, are released to continue their former activities, figuratively entering (and leaving) the police station, court, or jail through such an access:
    The people of California are sick of revolving-door justice. {Daily Telegraph, 4 March 1995)
   2. involving excessive change of management
   Those appointed come and go, figuratively without having entered the building:
    Ian Townsend, chief executive, is quitting [Sheffield United] to become chief executive of Medical House... The revolving door at Sheffield adds to the wider concern over soccer club management. In March, Sheffield's previous chief executive, Charlie Green, was forced to stand down. {Sunday Telegraph, 16 August 1998 — managers of other businesses are fortunate not to have their effectiveness assessed weekly on the basis of the random achievement of eleven employees)

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