🐾 Mole

"Make a mountain out of a molehill"

Meaning

To make a small problem seem very big.

About the mole

Moles burrow unseen underground, which is why their idioms describe hidden problems or secretive digging for information.

Example sentence

She made a mountain out of a molehill over one missing spoon.

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Which idiom means...

To make a small problem seem very big.

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