Idiom
split hairs
Meaning
Tedious details; minutiae.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please stop splitting hairs over these small details.”
“We have a deadline tomorrow, so let's not split hairs over the font size of this document.”
“While the legal team continued to split hairs regarding the precise interpretation of the contract, the actual project remained stalled for weeks.”
Examples
simple
“Please stop splitting hairs over these small details.”
contextual
“We have a deadline tomorrow, so let's not split hairs over the font size of this document.”
complex
“While the legal team continued to split hairs regarding the precise interpretation of the contract, the actual project remained stalled for weeks.”
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