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单词 be unable to see the wood (or the forest) for the trees
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be unable to see the wood (or North American the forest) for the trees

Fail to grasp the main issue because of over-attention to details: it is often difficult for people in organizations to see the wood for the trees...
  • You guys just cannot see the wood for the trees can you?
  • The result is biographies in which we cannot see the wood for the trees.
  • But in Kelly's own universe of absolutist morality one cannot see the forest for the trees and one scandal such as prisoner abuse somehow overshadows and negates the far greater good of seeing the end of tyranny.
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