| 释义 | strain at a gnat (and swallow a camel)idiom
 to worry or think too much about something that is not important, often forgetting about something that is much more important:
 The whole thing has been a classic case of straining at the gnat and cheerfully swallowing the camel.
 He dismissed the moral arguments about this as "straining at a gnat".
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Thinking and contemplating
 a brown studyidiom
 agonize
 agonize over/about something
 beard-stroking
 bethink
 harbour
 heart-searching
 hit on/upon something
 I/we'll (have to) seeidiom
 in the cold light of dayidiom
 introspect
 navel
 reckon
 reflection
 revisit
 reweigh
 rumination
 run through someone's mind/headidiom
 scratch your headidiom
 weigh
 
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