gnat-straining
nounEtymology From gnat + straining.
1
Fuss or importance placed on trivial things, to the exclusion of more significant matters.
- Neither is it the case that gnat-straining leads to camel swallowing, nor tithe-paying to neglect of justice, mercy and faith.1995, Kenneth G. C. Newport, The Sources and Sitz Im Leben of Matthew 23, page 141:
- Derived terms
- gnat-strain