that's splitting hairs
1split hairs — QUIBBLE, cavil, carp, niggle, chop logic; informal nit pick; archaic pettifog. → hair QUIBBLE, cavil, carp, niggle, chop logic; informal nit pick; archaic pettifog. → …
2split 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. …
3split hairs — to argue about very small differences or unimportant details. It s splitting hairs to tell people that they cannot lie but it is all right if they exaggerate …
4hair-splitting — split hairs to argue about whether details that are not important are exactly correct. I don t have very much patience with all this legal hair splitting …
5split — 1 /splIt/ verb past tense and past participle splitpresent participle splitting 1 INTO GROUPS also split up (I, T) if a group of people splits or is split, it divides into two or more groups, because one group strongly disagrees with the other:… …
6hair — hairlike, adj. /hair/, n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus. 2. an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most… …
7Hairstyle — Haircut redirects here. For the financial term, see Haircut (finance). For the 1982 film, see The Haircut. For the 1995 film, see Haircut (film). For the 1993 album by George Thorogood, see Haircut (album). Traditional hairstyle of a Japanese… …
8hair — [[t]he͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ hairs 1) N VAR: usu supp N Your hair is the fine threads that grow in a mass on your head. I wash my hair every night... He has black hair. ...a girl with long blonde hair... I get some grey hairs but I pull them out. 2) N VAR …
9split — split1 W3S2 [splıt] v past tense and past participle split present participle splitting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(disagree)¦ 2¦(separate into parts)¦ 3¦(break or tear)¦ 4¦(share)¦ 5¦(injure)¦ 6¦(end relationship)¦ 7¦(leave)¦ …
10List of common misconceptions — This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This is a list of current, widely held, false ideas and beliefs about notable topics which have been reported by reliable sources from around the world. Each has been discussed in published… …
