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Hair-Splitting

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Cavilling about very minute differences. (See Hair-breadth.)

“Nothing is more fatal to eloquence than attention to fine hair-splitting distinctions.”—Mathews: Oratory and Orators, chap. ii. p. 36.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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