He's as finicky as a cat. 10.She's the world's number one fusspot. 11.He's such an anal retentive person. 12.Men don't like women who nag. 13.He's penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Nasty as they are, most viruses are also extremely finicky — in order to thrive, they require the perfectly controlled climate inside a normal, resting, on-the-ground mammal.
Rather than fine-tune metamaterial to exact specifications, which is finicky and expensive, the researchers used nanoparticles of cobalt, which are relatively easy to get hold of, and suspended them in kerosene.