"Can't see the forest for the trees."

Posted by Adrian on October 24, 2002

In Reply to: "Can't see the forest for the trees." posted by Stan on October 24, 2002

: How about the saying "I can't see the forest for the trees.". If this is even still close to the original saying.

Even though the wood (or the forest) is technically the trees, this refers to being too close to the problem to see the solution.

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