how many angels can stand (dance) on the head of a pin?
Scornful description of a tedious concern with irrelevant details; an allusion to religious controversies in the middle ages. In fact, the medieval argument was over how many angels could stand on the point of a pin.
Words Nearby how many angels can stand (dance) on the head of a pin?
- howlet
- howling
- howling success
- Howlin' Wolf
- howlround
- how many angels can stand (dance) on the head of a pin?
- Howrah
- how so?
- howsoever
- how's that
- how's tricks?
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