split hairs

I'll not split hairs about what Greek best represents his nation.

Starza and Tichnat split hairs while I dozed and thought about Fern.

Just get me back, and we'll split hairs about it when I get around this way again.

They split hairs, if you will, but they wouldn't split the difference.

Here I found that the debaters had split hairs on what the fathers had done.

She was resolved not to split hairs with her husband over small matters; she would not nurse grievances.

In discussing theological questions, they split hairs; in making a bargain, they conclude to split the difference.

She was born before we began to split hairs, and have nerves instead of nerve.

The central bald spot, covered with a grayish scurf and surrounded by a circle of broken and split hairs, is characteristic.

To split hairs of deterrence over confirmed social hyenas, is to furnish them with the last formula from which to tear things.