Can T See The Forest For The Trees. The saying that someone can't see the forest for the trees means that he is so involved with the details of a situation that he loses sight of the larger issue. When you do you will notice there was a whole forest you couldn't see before because you were too close, and focusing on the trees.
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The tree is the real thing.
Hope you're having a great summer in the okanagan. A student (i teach english as a foreign language) asked me a few weeks ago if one existed, and i answered. The shadow is what we think of it; I'm looking for a word to describe the opposite, when you're so focused on the big picture that you can't see the little details.
