procurar pelo em ovo — meaning in English
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English meaning
- nitpick verb To complain about small, unimportant faults or mistakes.
Senses
procurar pelo em ovo is used for these senses in English:
- nitpick (figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
- split hairs (idiomatic) To consider or argue about fine details; to worry about minutiae.
nitpick — full definition
- verb To complain about small, unimportant faults or mistakes.
- verb To remove nits, the eggs of lice, from someone's hair.
- verb To take nits, or lice eggs, out of someone's hair.
- verb To clear nits, the eggs laid by lice, out of someone's hair.
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