You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Source: tatoeba (4447196)
Gnat
/næt/
Synonyms for "gnat" (36 found)
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Sample sentences
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The bee makes honey, which the drone devours. The wasp and the hornet molest with a sting: and especially cattle, so do the gadfly (breeze), the fly and the gnat.
Source: tatoeba (7355812)
I was bitten by a gnat.
Source: tatoeba (11341028)
"Away thou whining gnat, and trouble me not!"
Source: wiktionary