释义 |
hair-splittingˈhair-splitting noun [uncountable]  - It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.
- But this is hair-splitting as an art form.
- This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.
- This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting.
when people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument → split hairs at split1(8) |