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molehill
/ ˈməʊlˌhɪl /
noun
- the small mound of earth thrown up by a burrowing mole
- make a mountain out of a molehillto exaggerate an unimportant matter out of all proportion
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Idioms and Phrases
- make a mountain out of a molehill, to exaggerate a minor difficulty.
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Example Sentences
In both cases, the minority party on both committees thinks the majority is making a mountain out of a molehill.
It is the rawest example yet of our 2013, Twitter-loving, insta-pundit, mountain-out-of-a-molehill media culture.
But is this merely a case of making a mountain out of a molehill—or is there a legitimate reason to be upset?
From a policy point of view, it seems a ludicrous molehill to struggle over.
Few diplomatic events are more embarrassing than a summit that turns into a molehill.
Gran'ma said they were making a mounting out of a molehill—and expelling people did the school no good.
Call it, great lady, by another name; An humble modesty, that would not matchA molehill with Olympus.
She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.
To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn.
There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a molehill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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