只见树木，不见森林
zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn lín

Translation

  • only see the trees, but not see the forest (idiom, from Mao Zedong, On contradictions 毛澤東|毛泽东, 矛盾論|矛盾论) / to concentrate on minutiae at the expense of the big picture
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