was wotd|2006|August|29
English
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-make a mountain out of a molehill.ogg|Audio (US)
Verb
make a mountain out of a molehill
- idiom To treat a problem as larger than it is; to blow something out of proportion unnecessarily.
#: If you're stuck in traffic, try not to make a mountain out of a molehill worrying about it too much. What is the worst that could happen?
Translations
Catalan: fer-ne una muntanya
Dutch: van een mug een olifant maken (to make an elephant out of a fly), (Flanders also) van een muis een olifant maken (to make an elephant out of a mouse)
Estonian: teha sääsest elevant (to make an elephant out of a mosquito)
Finnish: tehdä|tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen (to make a bull out of a fly)
French: faire une montagne d'une taupinière
German: aus einer Mücke einen Elefanten machen (to make an elephant out of a fly)
Icelandic: að gera úlfalda úr mýflugu (to make a camel of a fly)
Italian: fare di una mosca un elefante (to make an elephant of a fly)
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Kurdish: t|ku|mê� kirin gamê� (to make a bull out of a fly)
Norwegian: å gjøre en fjær til fem høns (to turn a feather into five hens)
Portuguese: fazer tempestade em copo d'água (to make a storm in a glass of water)
Russian: дела�� из м��и �лона (to make an elephant out of a fly)
Spanish: hacer una montaña de un grano de arena, hacer de una pulga un elefante (to make an elephant of a flea)
Turkish: pireyi deve yapmak (to make camel out of a flea)
tr:make a mountain out of a molehill
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