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zeppo@lemmy.world 8 months agoThat’s a common saying in the US as well. Never heard of chess blindness, though.
Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?
zeppo@lemmy.world 8 months agoThat’s a common saying in the US as well. Never heard of chess blindness, though.
u202307011927@feddit.de 8 months ago
Didn’t know that. TIL, thanks
lyam23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“you can’t see the forest for the trees.”
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or sometimes “you can’t see the woods for the trees”
dandroid@dandroid.app 8 months ago
I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lived from Virginia to Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Michigan, also heard “can’t see the forest FOR the trees” which I always figures was a more colloquial change.
dandroid@dandroid.app 8 months ago
I haven’t heard that exact phrasing before, and as a native English speaker born and raised in California, that wording sounds a little awkward to me. It does kind of sound like something my mom, who is from the east coast, would say. 😆