細かいことにこだわるな。

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細かい こと こだわる

English Translation

Don't split hairs.

Furigana

(こま)かいことにこだわるな。

Romanji

Komakai koto ni kodawaru na.

Words

細かい (こまかい)
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive; attentive
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
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at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although
拘わる (こだわる)
to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive; to be fixated
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(sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates emotion or emphasis; (used with masu stem verb) command; (used with dictionary form verb) prohibition

Kanji

Readings: サイ、 ほそ.い、 ほそ.る、 こま.か、 こま.かい
Meanings: dainty, get thin, taper, slender, narrow, detailed, precise