Usage examples of "couper cheveux en quatre" in French with translation to English

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Arrête de couper les cheveux en quatre. Don't split hairs.
Qui fut la première personne à pulvériser le mille en quatre minutes ? Who was the first person to break the four-minute mile?
Il est capable de courir un mille en quatre minutes. He is capable of running a mile in four minutes.
Il nous est impossible de visualiser des objets en quatre dimensions. It's impossible for us to visualise four-dimensional objects.
Dans un univers très très lointain, où chaque vision devient réalité, un nouveau essaya de visualiser un objet en quatre dimensions, pour visualiser en définitive un objet comportant une infinité de dimensions qui plongea soudain notre existence entière dans le chaos, en finissant ainsi avec l'univers tel que nous le connaissons. In a far, far away universe where whatever is visualized becomes real, a noob tried to visualize a four dimensional object only to end up visualizing an object with an infinite number of dimensions that sent our entire existence into disarray thereby ending the universe as we know it.
Pliez la feuille en quatre. Fold the paper in four.
C'est impossible pour nous de se représenter des objets en quatre dimensions. It's impossible for us to visualise four-dimensional objects.
Il se mit en quatre pour s'assurer que nous disposions de tout ce dont nous avions besoin. He went out of his way to make sure that we had everything we needed.
Il nous est impossible de se représenter des objets en quatre dimensions. It's impossible for us to visualise four-dimensional objects.
Il s'est coupé en quatre pour faire plaisir à sa femme. He bent over backward to please his wife.
Il est grand temps de vous faire couper les cheveux ; ils sont trop longs. It's high time you had your hair cut; it has grown too long.
Je dois bientôt me faire couper les cheveux. Soon I have to go get a haircut.
Il se fait couper les cheveux une fois par mois. He has his hair cut once a month.
Comment voulez-vous vous faire couper les cheveux ? How do you want your hair cut?
Tu devrais aller te faire couper les cheveux. You should go and have your hair cut.
Il se fait couper les cheveux trois fois par mois. He gets a haircut three times a month.
Où vous êtes-vous fait couper les cheveux ? Where did you get your hair cut?
Elle voulait se faire faire couper les cheveux, mais sa mère ne lui aurait jamais permis. She wanted to have her hair cut, but her mother wouldn't let her.
Jane s'est fait couper les cheveux courts avant la rencontre sportive. Jane had her hair cut short before the athletic meet.
Je me suis fait couper les cheveux chez un barbier. I had my hair cut at a barber's shop.
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