blow out of proportion

If the political press suddenly wants to prove how tough it is, after four years of completely failing to hold Donald Trump and his inner circle accountable, it could best do so not by finding fake scandals to blow out of proportion, but by aggressively pushing Biden to meet the needs of the public — in a way no president has ever done before.

But it can also be used to blow out of proportion, to try to convince Americans who couldn’t find Portland on a map that events there pose an existential threat to their country.

“The media’s run out of things to attack Mr. Trump on, and so now they scour the social media accounts of his family looking for things to blow out of proportion.”

These small delicate things would blow out of proportion and become annoying.

Some of our little episodes on the bench, people try to blow out of proportion.