hair-splitting

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)the act of finding exceedingly smalldifferenceswhich are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.2006, Ian Aitken, inThe Guardian, Richard Clements ObituaryDick's Tribune poked endless fun at thehair-splittingsectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time.

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