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to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important); lacking a sense of perspective

lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect; to stress the incidental over the fundamental

slight or important, urgent or non-urgent (idiom); to deal with important matters first; sense of priority

the important and the less important; primary and secondary

to value quantity over quality

to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom); to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details