Re: Losing the will to live

GeoffC wrote: >>Define "nit picking"

and Simon Brooke responded:
The removal of lice or other parasites from the hair, usu. of another
person.

Strictly speaking that ought to be "louse picking". "Nit picking" would be removal of the eggs.

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