钻牛角尖的英文

he likes screwing a bull by its horns

最地道英语说法是：he likes to split hairs 或 he likes to get into a dead end

吹毛求疵，钻牛角尖 split hairs 钻牛角尖 ：take unnecessary pains to study an insignificant or insoluble problemget into a dead endget into a blind alley

钻牛角尖：quibble over trivialities split hairs 化干戈为玉帛: bury the hatchet.

cattle angle tine