When a person gets very angry because of a small joke played on him, you can say he makes a mountain out of a molehill.
The giants of management education have laboured mightily to bring forth a molehill.
Andy: The boss is being unreasonable! He flared up at me, making a mountain out of molehill!
"To make a mountain out of a molehill" is to make an unimportant matter seem important.
A real mole has buried into the studio -so now we have a real molehill to make a mountain out of.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill if you think that one twinge of toothache means that you must have several teeth extracted.
Your "broken arm" was only a sprained wrist. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Research and Use the right tools - Possessing the right tools can easily shrink a mountainous task into a molehill.
In their hearts that may be a piece of cake, would say I make a mountain out of a molehill.
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