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Used to desribe someone who is so caught up with the big picture that they lose sight of the smaller but more important details. Opposite of can't see the wood for the trees.
"If you pay off an extra â¬150 a month on your mortgage, you'll pay it off two years earlier and save â¬4,000 altogether."
"But since my husband lost his job, we're barely making enough to pay the bills as it is; we can't afford an extra â¬150 every month."
"Ah, but if you just make this sacrifice now, you'll be in a much, much better position in 18 years!"
"But as I said... oh forget it, you can't see the trees for the wood."
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In medicine, a common disease presenting with unusual symptoms. Also applies to a patient with symptoms common to several diseases in which the first diagnosis is of a rare or obscure disease, when the truth is a more mundane disorder.
The term was popularised by Scrubs.
Derived from the axiom "When you hear hoofbeats, think 'horses', not 'zebras'.
If a patient presents with vomiting, dairrhoea, and fever, West Nile Virus is a zebra; they're more likely to have enteropathogenic E. coli infection.
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A skateboarding trick in which the skater bends his/her legs and body to one side and grabs the bottom of the board.
So called because from the front or back, the skater's pose is a similar shape to the country or Japan.
Jack did an ollie off the half-pipe and followed up with a japan, then a 360 before landing.
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The dramatic events and controversy that follow a surprising, important change, statement, or revelation.
Derived from the name for the radioactive particles that fall from the sky for some time after a nuclear explosion.
After the prime minister revealed he had been working alongside the banks in actions which precipitated the current economic crisis, there was massive fallout which resulted in a general election.
The president and cabinet were forced to resign due to the fallout after an insider leaked secret files to WikiLeaks.
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