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What do they actually mean? In the literal sense?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder-Some girl mashed the mascara brush in her eye while trying to apply and drive at the same time.
Forest for the trees-Sonny Bono
Cut off your nose to spite your face. Michael Jackson
Forest for the trees...
I always thought that it was an example of being unable to see
the beauty of or the entirety of something (depending on how you used it) because you were too focused on one or two elements.
Example-You join a GLO. You see see a bunch of GLOs on campus, but forget to keep in mind ALL GLOs make up the Greek System. You may be busy putting down other GLOs-being critical- when someone walks up, shakes their head and says-"You can't see the forest for the trees." You didn't realize that by hurting a small part of something much bigger, you were really hurting the entire forest. It also works if a few GLOs get bad PR, many will judge the entire Greek system. They can't see the forest for the trees either.
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