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• lyam23@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “you can’t see the forest for the trees.”

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or sometimes “you can’t see the woods for the trees”

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• 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”

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  • 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.

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    • 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. 😆

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      • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t get me started on pop vs soda…

        I say soda, wife says pop. We have a little exchange of “correcting” each other a couple times a month.

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