split hairs

钻牛角尖分裂的毛发分裂的头发钻空子

split hairs 的定义

  1. To argue about an inconsequential and trivial aspect of an issue: “When you are accused of being forty-five minutes late for an appointment, you are splitting hairs to say that you were really only forty minutes late.”

split hairs 近义词

v. 动词 verb

make an extremely fine distinction

更多split hairs例句

  1. Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
  2. She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.
  3. The conspirators were split into two teams, “Alpha” and “Bravo.”
  4. If you look at the history, you can really understand why the parties are so divided and why the public is so split.
  5. Scrolling through this hate-filled manifesto for the first time made the hairs on my arm tingle with discomfort.
  6. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
  7. The cantonment was split into two sections by an irregular ravine, or nullah, running east and west.
  8. The atmosphere seemed drawn taut before him as though it must any instant split open upon a sound of crying.
  9. The Griffin carried off one sheep a day from a German village, till a man came with a "falchion" and split the Griffin open.
  10. The rein was fastened to a piece of split rattan drawn through the animal's nose.