Complete Definition of "blow something out of proportion"

English

Verb
blow (something) out of proportion

#idiom To overreact or overstate something; to treat something too seriously or worry too much about it.
#:I don't think we need to blow it out of proportion. There's a problem, and we should fix it.

See also
make a mountain out of a molehill

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