角を矯めて牛を殺す
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, す)
Idiomatic
1. to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; (lit.) to straighten the horns and kill the cow
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