I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”
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u202307011927@feddit.de 8 months agoDidn’t know that. TIL, thanks
dandroid@dandroid.app 8 months ago
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lived from Virginia to Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Michigan, also heard “can’t see the forest FOR the trees” which I always figures was a more colloquial change.
dandroid@dandroid.app 8 months ago
I haven’t heard that exact phrasing before, and as a native English speaker born and raised in California, that wording sounds a little awkward to me. It does kind of sound like something my mom, who is from the east coast, would say. 😆
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t get me started on pop vs soda…
I say soda, wife says pop. We have a little exchange of “correcting” each other a couple times a month.
lyam23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“you can’t see the forest for the trees.”
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or sometimes “you can’t see the woods for the trees”