splitting hairs

But this is splitting hairs when everything else swirling around them is so utterly dreadful.

But Kirby's response to the horror at the refugee camp is "mincing words" and "splitting hairs," argued Parkinson.

“Under normal circumstances with those additional bids, they would have been in … but when you start splitting hairs you have to look at something, you have to find something and that’s ultimately why they were not in the field,” McClelland said.

Roberts also hedged some of his optimism, acknowledging, “I don’t know how it’s going to translate as far as performance … But I think that’s more of splitting hairs.”

While it may seem like splitting hairs to re-classify two populations of snakes that look identical to one another, Fry emphasizes how important such delineations can be for understanding the threats posed to these creatures.