make a mountain out of a mole-hill

noun

1. a small mound or ridge of earth raised up by a mole or moles burrowing under the ground.

Idioms

2. make a mountain out of a molehill, to exaggerate a minor difficulty.

noun

1. the small mound of earth thrown up by a burrowing mole
2. make a mountain out of a molehill to exaggerate an unimportant matter out of all proportion

n.also mole-hill, mid-15c., from mole (2) + hill (n.). To much amplifying thinges yt. be but small, makyng mountaines of Molehils. [John Foxe, “Acts and Monuments,” 1570] see make a mountain out of a molehill.