Idiom
miss the woods for the trees
Meaning
Alternative form of cannot see the forest for the trees.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You focus on small details and miss the woods for the trees.”
“The manager spent all day fixing minor typos and missed the woods for the trees regarding the project's main goal.”
“By obsessing over the individual components of the legal argument, the lawyer missed the woods for the trees and failed to address the core injustice of the case.”
Examples
simple
“You focus on small details and miss the woods for the trees.”
contextual
“The manager spent all day fixing minor typos and missed the woods for the trees regarding the project's main goal.”
complex
“By obsessing over the individual components of the legal argument, the lawyer missed the woods for the trees and failed to address the core injustice of the case.”
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