nit-picking

"When you try so hard, put in so much effort and see such nit-picking...

In deference to the lyricist, I hope my nit-picking will be tolerated.

But if you were nit-picking it could have been better.

No more nit-picking? New FDA approved treatment promises easier way to defeat lice.

This Cutting Edge film reveals Britain's most avid trip advisors and meets some of the hoteliers and restaurateurs at war with the site because of nit-picking and abusive reviews.

He did his best - although, if we're nit-picking, making your mum buy you dinner and ordering friends to bring round bottles of wine is probably breaking the rules - but he just couldn't pull it off.

The syndrome is the inability to resist replying to a letter, however banal it may be and however obvious the response, without nit-picking to the nth degree to try to elicit maximum response.

"But when I saw them nit-picking and trying to get us to play on Saturday I realised that Laurent Blanc was less sure of himself than I thought."

Kamm has been nit-picking the 1995 first edition through ten reprints, but now takes the opportunity to expand or recast certain sections to reflect current teaching practices and to reconsider the balance of the whole textbook.

Here's an example of how nit-picking Hirata was for the vehicle.

Am I nit-picking? Sure, but that's what librarians do.

"Some might see it as me nit-picking, but if we can pinpoint mistakes we can try to improve on them."

What we got from the presidential candidates was a lot of nit-picking about whether or not the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind law was adequately funded or not.

QI'M not very good at following strict diets with nit-picking rules.