le nez dans le guidon
French
editEtymology
editCompare English nose to the grindstone.
Pronunciation
editPhrase
edit- (informal, figuratively) so focused on what one's doing that one becomes unaware of one's surroundings and oblivious to anything else, that one can no longer see the bigger picture
- Synonym: la tête dans le guidon
- avoir le nez dans le guidon, être le nez dans le guidon ― to be so caught up in something that one can't see the wood for the trees, to lose perspective