10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIT-PICKER»
Discover the use of
nit-picker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nit-picker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Nit Picker (GUNK Aliens, Book 6)
Aliens are coming... to get up your nose!
Key points The Nit-picker needs details and is highly technical. • Always pitch
with facts and figures. • Flatterthe intellectual mind. • Involve them right from the
beginning, and give them notice. Introduction Nit-pickers typically have highly ...
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Professional Web Design: The Best of Smashing Magazine
NIT-PICKER. This client is never fully satisfied with the work you do and
constantly picks on minor details here and there that they dislike and want
changed. Do not be surprised if they ask you to change these same details over
and over ad ...
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Becoming a Successful Scientist: Strategic Thinking for ...
The nit picker is a particularly useless type of reviewer, and can be deadly if in a
position of power. Nit pickers are often observed in bureaucracies, where the
proper filling out of forms and the formatting of reports can come to assume
greater ...
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Becoming a Successful Scientist: Strategic Thinking for ...
The nit picker is a particularly useless type of reviewer, and can be deadly if in a
position of power. Nit pickers are often observed in bureaucracies, where the
proper filling out of forms and the formatting of reports can come to assume
greater ...
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Dealing with Difficult People
83 If you're sick of the sick 85 Everyone having a sickie 86 Cliques, circles and
Witches' covens 87 fault-finders illlll nit-pickers 89 If you have a nit—picker for a
boss 90 Nit—picking colleagues 91 EIISSiIII a llllSll lil'l! ynu can Ill] Witllllllt 93 The
...
Nit-picking is a damaging compensatory mechanism that seems to release the nit
-picker from the responsibility for getting the job done. A person with a nitpicking
attitude seems to look for the tiniest fault. If the nit-picker chips away at small ...
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Thinking Strategically: Power Tools for Personal and ...
The typical destructive nit picker is a boss who is never satisfied with a
subordinate's work, but typically focuses on the formatting of reports, minor
grammatical mistakes, and similar trivia, and may completely ignore the serious
flaws in a piece ...
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overly concerned with details or finds fault with others) ° old lady is a nit-picker. •
nit-pick ' ' Ж&^Ш\ • «• Don't nit-pick over trivial things ( й5c matters ) .
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Thinking Like a Woman: Personal Life and Political Ideas
This meant that our seven-year-old had to sit reasonably still in one place for
hours on end, tilting her head this way and that so that the nit-picker could
examine each little section of hair and scalp. The task seemed endless; indeed, I
as ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIT-PICKER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nit-picker is used in the context of the following news items.
Well | New Tactics for Battling Head Lice
One mother I know, rather than douse her daughter's long thick hair repeatedly with a pesticide, engaged the services of a local nit-picker. «New York Times, Jun 15»
Nit Happens! Mom of 6 vs. Head Lice
The salon was simply called, "The Nit-Picker." How dull. How about "The Lice Whisperer," or "Sugar & Spice & Everything Lice," or "Tip of the ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Blogger mom lesson: Here's what not to do when your kid gets lice
Instead, bust out your check book and hire a professional nit-picker. I'm totes fo' realzies. These people exist. And they're not as expensive as ... «SaintPetersBlog, May 15»
Bernie Sanders, the Faux Socialist, Government-Loving Statist
I realize I'm being a nit-picker, but I don't like the fact that the WSJ editorial is entitled “An Honest Socialist.” My gripe is that Sanders isn't honest ... «United Liberty, May 15»
Coalition big-hitter praises Worcestershire's 'cyber valley' in House …
Coalition nit-picker more like! No doubt hoping for a non-exec directorship handy for a cosy base in the Cotswolds in his impending retirement. «Worcester News, Mar 15»
Megan Giglia: From life-changing stroke to para-cycling track worlds …
“Obviously I would have been happier with gold and even with gold I would have been nit-picking at myself because I'm a terrible nit-picker.”. «British Cycling, Mar 15»
Six Nations brave new world of running, passing and all-action …
Factor in, too, that you need a sympathetic referee – and Twickenham certainly had that in Nigel Owens – not a pedantic nit-picker. «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
'Misbah-Ul-Hulk': As Pakistan batting collapses against Australia, it's …
... celebrating Misbah's wicket. (ignore the Canadian flag, you nit-picker) pic.twitter.com/OI4Yqd7kZh — Adarsh LibeRatty (@YearOfRat) March ... «Scroll.in, Mar 15»
Accidence Will Happen: the Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage …
Kamm loses no time in pointing out that by the same rule, “number” should take a singular verb form, and the nit-picker he quotes doesn't do ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
The WolfGANG sessions: NACO finds some edge at the Mercury …
That said, he admits he's also usually an incurable nit-picker of his music, so Beautiful Mechanical was a real step into the abyss. “It was a risk ... «Ottawa Citizen, Feb 15»
