be a stickler for detail/rules/accuracy etcSTRICTto think that rules etc are very important and that other people should think so too 非常注重细节/规则/准确性等
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be a stickler for detail/rules/accuracy etc• With his personalguests who were important to him or his state, Kim was a stickler for detail.
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stickler• Charman, a stickler for musicalpurity, did not relish the idea.• Montgomery is a stickler for defense, and Moseley caught on quickly.• The loosest woman is a stickler for etiquette and elocution.• You just have to have much better vision and not be such a stickler for detail to see ours.• With his personalguests who were important to him or his state, Kim was a stickler for detail.• A stickler for realism, he was frustrated by an obstinacy in his models as strong as his own.• Being sticklers for legaltradition, they plan to anyway, of course.• The chancellor is clearly no stickler for fiscal purity.
Originstickler
(1500-1600)stickle“to argue about small points”((16-20 centuries)), from stightle“to put in order”((13-15 centuries)), from Old Englishstihtan