to pay too much attention to details and not understand the general situation.

Company officials were so involved in the talks, they couldn't see the forest for the trees and didn't realize their employees were willing to strike.

• stew in your own juice
• stew in your own juices
• stick around
• stick by
• stick by someone
• stick by something
• stick head above the parapet
• stick in craw
• sticking point
• stick in gullet
• stick in mind
• stick-in-the-mud
• stick in throat
• stick in your craw
• stick in your gullet
• stick in your mind
• stick in your throat
• stick it out
• stick it to
• stick it to someone
• stick neck out
• stick nose into
• stick nose into something
• stick oar in
• stick out