He's as finicky as a cat. 10.She's the world's number one fusspot. 11.He's such an anal retentive person. 12.Men don't like women who nag. 13.He's penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Time that I could not get back, that would require me to shift my research timeline to accommodate a redo of the experiment with this finicky algae strain.
Rather than fine-tune metamaterial to exact specifications, which is finicky and expensive, the researchers used nanoparticles of cobalt, which are relatively easy to get hold of, and suspended them in kerosene.
For me, there is snow to be shoveled, my finicky furnace has needed to be fixed twice this year, frost resistant pipes to be checked and a multitude of other little tasks.
They are cross about some issues that many big businesses also seethe about, such as the attempts by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the market regulator, to demand finicky emissions disclosures.
Instead of finicky phone calls between glorified calculators, digital networks now whisk transactions to huge farms of mainframe computers that handle each one in a fraction of a second, essentially 100% of the time.
So far, researchers for the atlas have identified thousands—the precise number depending on how finicky you are about the amount of difference there needs to be between two cells for them to count as different types.
We have a number of rules that we follow for naming species that, though they may seem finicky, are important for maintaining consistency when you have millions of different people who need to talk about specific species.