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角を矯めて牛を殺す【つのをためてうしをころすtsunowotameteushiwokorosu】 Inflection

expression / godan ~す verb:

  • 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; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

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