miss the wood for the trees

English

Verb

miss the wood for the trees (third-person singular simple present misses the wood for the trees, present participle missing the wood for the trees, simple past and past participle missed the wood for the trees)

  1. (idiomatic) Alternative form of cannot see the forest for the trees.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.