can't see the wood for the trees in Podcasts

Right, because wood in British English can mean something similar to forest. So, if you're standing in front of an individual tree, maybe looking at the details of the bark, you can't see the entire forest. You can't see the wood for the trees. Right, which is why in American English you might also hear can't see the forest for the trees. Yes.

Well, the other day I thought of quite an old idiom, can't see the wood for the trees. Now it's old, but it is still quite commonly used. If you can't see the wood for the trees, it means that you're so focused on the small details of something that you aren't looking at the situation as a whole and what's important. Oh.