hair-splitting
Noun
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Noun
hair-splitting
- (idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
- 2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary
- Dick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time.
- 2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary
- French: enculage de mouches (slang), couper les cheveux en quatre
- German: Haarspalterei
- Russian: дото́шность
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