nitpick
verb
°To correct minutiae or find fault in unimportant details; to kvetch.
"Someone will invariably nitpick about any spelling error posted to the forums."
°(archaic) To pick nits - lice eggs - from someone’s hair.
"Watch the mother gorrilla nitpick the baby’s fur clean."
synonyms: cavil
metaphor
noun
°The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile.
°The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.