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