To overthink and/or become overly concern about the small details.
Stop spatulari$ing, you’re worrying about things that don’t matter.
Spatulary
(ant. Corollary)
1. Any Amendment or Addendum conceived aforethought to flip or otherwise subvert a policy recommendation from a people's or other 'lower' assembly; in layman's terms, a monkey-wrench.
2. Any office, committee room, or bunker in which these are conceived.
That new House Infrastructure bill was going great until the Senate slipped that Voter-ID spatulary under it!
Spatulary
(ant. Corollary)
1. An Amendment conceived aforethought to flip or otherwise subvert a policy recommendation from a people's or other 'lower' assembly; in layman's terms, a monkey-wrench.
2. Any office, committee room, or bunker in which these are conceived.
That new House Infrastructure bill was going great until the Senate slipped that Voter-ID Spatulary under it!