split hairs

  • 1split hairs — If people split hairs, they concentrate on tiny and unimportant details to find fault with something …

    The small dictionary of idiomes

  • 2split hairs — index bicker, pettifog Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3split hairs — ► split hairs make overfine distinctions. Main Entry: ↑hair …

    English terms dictionary

  • 4split hairs — QUIBBLE, cavil, carp, niggle, chop logic; informal nit pick; archaic pettifog. → hair   QUIBBLE, cavil, carp, niggle, chop logic; informal nit pick; archaic pettifog. → …

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  • 5split hairs —    If people split hairs, they concentrate on tiny and unimportant details to find fault with something.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you split hairs, you pay too much attention to differences that are very small or unimportant.     …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 6split hairs — 1. noun Tedious details; minutiae. The Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less than riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split …

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  • 7split hairs — {v. phr.} To find and argue about small and unimportant differences as if the differences are important. * /John is always splitting hairs; he often starts an argument about something small and unimportant./ * /Don t split hairs about whose turn… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 8split hairs — {v. phr.} To find and argue about small and unimportant differences as if the differences are important. * /John is always splitting hairs; he often starts an argument about something small and unimportant./ * /Don t split hairs about whose turn… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 9split\ hairs — v. phr. To find and argue about small and unimportant differences as if the differences are important. John is always splitting hairs; he often starts an argument about something small and unimportant. Don t split hairs about whose turn it is to… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 10split hairs — be very fussy, notice small differences    Clyde likes to work on research that requires him to split hairs …

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