make a mountain out of a molehill

Verb

 * 1)  To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.
 * 2) * 1573,, The Supremacie of Christian Princes Over All Persons Throughout Theor Dominions, London: Humphrey Toye, Division18, p.553,
 * to slaunder the Gospell ye aggrauate many lies, & will make a mountaine of a mole hill
 * 1) * 1642,, Instructions for Forreine Travell, London: Humphrey Mosley, Section14, p.176-177,
 * Others have a custome to bee always relating strange things and wonders, they make Mountaines of Mole-hils, like Charenton-Bridge-Eccho, which doubles the sound nine times.
 * 1) * 1749,, , Dublin, John Smith, Volume3, Book15, Chapter10, pp.170-171,
 * For of all the Powers exercised by this Passion over our Minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting Hope in the midst of Despair. Yet it is equally true, that the same Passion will sometimes make Mountans of Mole-hills, and produce Despair in the midst of Hope;
 * For of all the Powers exercised by this Passion over our Minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting Hope in the midst of Despair. Yet it is equally true, that the same Passion will sometimes make Mountans of Mole-hills, and produce Despair in the midst of Hope;

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: լվից ուղտ շինել
 * Azerbaijani: milçəkdən fil düzəltmək
 * Belarusian: рабіць з мухі слана
 * Catalan: fer-ne una muntanya (d'un gra de sorra), ofegar-se en un got d'aigua
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gøre en myg til en elefant
 * Dutch:, van een muis een olifant maken
 * Esperanto: fari el muŝo elefanton
 * Estonian: teha sääsest elevant
 * Faroese: gera nógv burtur úr ongum
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , faire une montagne d'une souris, faire une montagne d'une taupinière
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, πνίγομαι σε μια κουταλιά νερό
 * Hebrew:, עָשָׂה מִזְּבוּב פִּיל, עָשָׂה מֵעַכְבָּר הַר
 * Hindi: राई का पहाड बनाना
 * Hungarian: bolhából elefántot csinál
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: membuat gunung dari sarang tikus mondok
 * Italian: fare di una mosca un elefante
 * Kazakh: түймедейді түйедей ету
 * Korean: 침소봉대(針小棒大),, 노승발검(怒蠅拔劒)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: mêş kirin gamêş
 * Latin: nodum in scirpo quero
 * Norwegian: gjøre en fjær til fem høns
 * Bokmål: gjøre en mygg til en elefant
 * Nynorsk: gjere ein mygg til ein elefant
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: fazer tempestade em copo d'água, fazer uma tempestade num copo de água
 * Punjabi: ਰਾਈ ਦਾ ਪਹਾੜ ਬਣਾਉਣਾ
 * Romanian: face din țânțar armăsar
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: urobiť z komára somára
 * Slovene: narediti iz muhe slona
 * Spanish: hacer una montaña de un grano de arena, hacer de una pulga un elefante,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: chuyện bé xé ra to
 * Welsh: gwneud môr a mynydd