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钻牛角

to waste time on insignificant problems; to split hairs

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含义

  • lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
  • to bash one's head against a brick wall
  • a wild goose chase
  • a blind alley
  • to split hairs
  • same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖