argue about little details

argue about little details

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is di ā NJ ī Nb ō Li ǎ ng, which means to care too much about unimportant things. It's from Ming Dynasty's Wu Mingshi's the great robbery prison.

Idiom explanation

I'm still fussy. To care too much about unimportant things.

The origin of Idioms

The first fold of Ming Dynasty's Wu Ming's the great robbery prison: "I don't want to think about it day and night, and I don't want to show off my hero."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial

Examples

The benefits of friends can't be said like this. Qian Zhongshu's Selected Essays