Meaning Of The Word Make a mountain out of a molehill

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Make a mountain out of a molehill Meaning

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make a mountain out of a molehill
to exaggerate a minor difficulty
to exaggerate an unimportant matter out of all proportion
to make a small, unimportant problem seem big and important
to treat a trivial problem as a great or important one
countable noun: A molehill is a small pile of earth made by a mole digging a tunnel.

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