Tā yídàn zuānjìn niújiǎojiān, jiù tīng bú jìn biérén de huà.
Once he burrows into a dead-end problem, he won't listen to anyone.
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Almost always appears with the verb 钻 in the set phrase 钻牛角尖, to burrow into the tip of an ox's horn, i.e. to obsess over a problem you can't solve and shouldn't be wrestling with in the first place.
