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if someone can't see the wood for the trees, they are unable to understand what is important in a situation because they are giving too much attention to details.

After you've spent years researching a single topic you get to a point where you can't see the wood for the trees.

• go stag
• go straight
• Go take a running jump!
• Go tell it to the marines.
• Go tell that to the marines.
• go the distance
• go the extra mile
• go the full distance
• go the whole hog
• go the whole nine yards
• go thin on top
• go through
• go through fire and water
• go through hell
• go through hoops
• go through like a dose of salts
• go through like a hot knife through butter
• go through like a knife through butter
• go through someone like a dose of salts
• go through something like a dose of salts
• go through something like a hot knife through butter
• go through something like a knife through butter
• go through the floor
• go through the mill
• go through the motions