molehill
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2.
make a mountain out of a molehill, to exaggerate a minor difficulty.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the small mound of earth thrown up by a burrowing mole |
| 2. | make a mountain out of a molehill to exaggerate an unimportant matter out of all proportion |
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Molehill
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Have you ever heard of the saying turning a molehill into a mountain.
If any one wants to make a mountain out of a molehill they will have to do so.
Cosmology, in other words, is a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence.
Conscience often stops at a molehill and leaps over a mountain.
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