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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hair-Splitting

Cavilling about very minute differences. (See Hair-Breadth.)

“Nothing is more fatal to eloquence than attention to fine hair-splitting distinctions.” —Mathews: Oratory and Orators, chap. ii. p. 36.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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