Bedeutung
Focusing on details while missing the big picture.
Kultureller Hintergrund
Used in professional settings to encourage strategic thinking. Very common in academic and business contexts. Highly valued as a proverb for wisdom. Used in education to teach students to look at the whole system.
Use it in meetings
It's a very professional way to tell someone to stop obsessing over minor details.
Don't be rude
Make sure your tone is helpful, not dismissive, when using this to critique someone.
Bedeutung
Focusing on details while missing the big picture.
Use it in meetings
It's a very professional way to tell someone to stop obsessing over minor details.
Don't be rude
Make sure your tone is helpful, not dismissive, when using this to critique someone.
Pair it with a solution
Always follow up with 'Let's take a step back' to make the feedback constructive.
Teste dich selbst
Complete the idiom.
Nie widzisz lasu przez __________.
The idiom is 'nie widzieć lasu przez drzewa'.
What does this idiom mean?
When someone says you don't see the forest for the trees, they mean:
It refers to losing the big picture due to detail-focus.
Choose the best response.
Manager: 'We are stuck on the color of the logo.' Employee: '__________'
This is the appropriate response to point out the lack of perspective.
Match the situation to the idiom usage.
A student is memorizing every single date in a history book but fails to understand the causes of the war.
The student is focused on details (dates) and missing the big picture (causes).
🎉 Ergebnis: /4
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Aufgabensammlung
4 AufgabenNie widzisz lasu przez __________.
The idiom is 'nie widzieć lasu przez drzewa'.
When someone says you don't see the forest for the trees, they mean:
It refers to losing the big picture due to detail-focus.
Manager: 'We are stuck on the color of the logo.' Employee: '__________'
This is the appropriate response to point out the lack of perspective.
A student is memorizing every single date in a history book but fails to understand the causes of the war.
The student is focused on details (dates) and missing the big picture (causes).
🎉 Ergebnis: /4
Häufig gestellte Fragen
12 FragenIt is neutral. It works in both casual and professional settings.
No, that is incorrect and sounds very strange to a native speaker.
Yes, it is very common and widely understood.
It is a critique, but usually meant to be helpful, not mean.
Yes, if you are describing how you overcome challenges.
It is very similar, yes.
Try to identify a situation where you are focusing too much on details.
Yes, 'patrzeć na drzewa, nie widząc lasu'.
Yes, it appears in essays and analytical writing.
It's a metaphor for proximity vs. distance.
It might be too abstract for young children.
Yes, in business-related posts.
Verwandte Redewendungen
gubić się w szczegółach
synonymto get lost in details
patrzeć szerzej
contrastto look wider
mieć klapki na oczach
similarto have blinders on
zrobić krok w tył
builds onto take a step back
