“Agarrarse del chongo

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• Meaning

To quarrel about trivial unimportant things. To waste time arguing about irrelevant matters.

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• Origin

It is said that William Shakespeare used a similar expression in one of his writings in the 1600´s. In those times, it was thought that splitting hairs would be utterly impossible since a hair is such a fine thing that no instrument available at that time could be used to perform such a fine detailed action.

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• Example

-Oh, hun. This is such a special day.

-Really? What do you mean?

-What? Don´t you remember?

-Oh, yes. It was the day when we met one year ago. How could I forget?

-Do you still remeber what time it was?

-I remember that it was in the afternoon.

-Yeah, but what time?

-I..Well…Uhmmm…

-You see? You don´t care about important mattters in our relationship!

-Here we go, splitting hairs once again!

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