Etymologies
- over- + specific (Wiktionary)
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“But nowhere else does he indulge in such overspecific pointmaking, and the result is a production that serves as a timely reminder of the timeless warning uttered by one of the characters in "The Crucible": "Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.”
“Let me try to explain my problem without being overspecific just in case my agent lurks hereabouts.”
“A bunch of metaphors are translated literally, resulting in lines that only kind of make sense, and a few lines are weirdly overspecific to the point of actually being mistranslated.”
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