Were people online making a mountain out of a molehill?
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"Personally, I think it's making a mountain out of a molehill," she says of the issue.
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After the red stiletto debacle, Hutchinson briefly considered that she might be making a mountain out of a molehill.
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I guess when I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, what I tend to do is get away from the art.
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Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue.
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"Some people think this was making a mountain out of a molehill," said an editorial on Tuesday in Southern Daily, an official newspaper for the southern province of Guangdong.
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No one wants that to happen to them so often victims downplay what has happened to them in case they're being seen to be making a mountain out of a molehill.
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It makes victims feel as if they'd be making a mountain out of a molehill if they raised the issue as everyone around them is saying it's the victim's fault, consciously or not.
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" Trump's pal and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani dismissed the remarks on ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday, saying "the Clinton spin machine is responsible for making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Trump has divided Republicans with his complimentary views on Putin, but King said complaints about their interview are making "a mountain out of a molehill," pointing out his program is often critical of the Kremlin.
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Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1875), Volume 7, p.564 The phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" is commonly used metaphorically to mean "to exaggerate a minor problem".
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Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue. It seems to have come into existence in the 16th century.
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The earliest recorded use of the alliterative phrase making a mountain out of a molehill dates from 1548. The word mole was less than two hundred years old by then. Previous to that it had been known by its Old English name wand, which had slowly changed to want. A molehill was known as a wantitump, a word that continued in dialect use for centuries more.
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Chelsea accuses her of making a mountain out of a molehill, Denise however listens intently. Libby is devastated to learn that a body discovered buried in the Square is that of her father. After speaking to Liz, Libby disowns her as she called the police to say she thought Denise was capableof murdering Owen, and she was taken away for questioning. When Adam brings Libby flowers and says Owen must have been murdered for a reason, Libby shouts at him for patronizing her.
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Some serious allegations of corruption were also leveled against both the judges. Nonetheless, Justice Maheshwari, being the senior most officer of the district judiciary, boldly led from the front against unethical elements of the Bar who brought disrepute to the institution. On 14 July, the then Rajasthan High Court Judge Bela M. Trivedi took suo moto cognizance of the strike and issued a contempt notice to the group of lawyers for making a mountain out of a molehill to go on strike. That made the lawyers include Bela M. Trivedi's transfer too the main demand to end the strike.
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In June 2019, the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) determined that We Build The Wall had built its wall across federally-owned land and had built and locked a gate across a road leading to Monument One without required permits. The IBWC also accused WBtW of installing a gate for the wall on federal land in lieu of proper permits or authorizations, while illegally preventing access to waterways and a public monument. According to emails obtained via Open Records Act requests, WBtW was informed about such permits and studies that were required to build the gate on federal property but ignored them and proceeded with construction anyway. "We are literally making a mountain out of a molehill," said attorney Rich Kaye, who represented WBtW, in writing to the IBWC on June 3.
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