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hair-splitting

/hair-split-ing/US // ˈhɛərˌsplɪt ɪŋ //UK // (ˈhɛəˌsplɪtɪŋ) //

吐槽,吐沫星子,吐槽大会,吐沫横飞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by such distinctions: the hairsplitting arguments of a political debate.

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Examples

  • Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

  • Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.

  • Fumbleroooohski…'” (39) “'Look at me, ungh, splitting my own seam, oohh… going deep.

  • But his fingers moved through her silky strands of hair, and then down her neck.

  • She used electrolysis to banish the prickly hair from her delicate face.

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • He stood before the glass hung above the wash bench and 369 smoothed his hair.