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Meaning of if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

With limited tools, single-minded people apply them inappropriately or indiscriminately.
If a person is familiar with a certain, single subject, or has with them a certain, single instrument, they may have a confirmation bias to believe that it is the answer to/involved in everything.

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

if at first you don't succeed if at first you don't succeed, try try again if ever there has been one if ever there was one if ever there were one if I ever saw one