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molehill

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No matter his audience, Roman always came back to the argument that invasivorism could turn unwanted mountains of exotics into manageable molehills.

Gran'ma said they were making a mounting out of a molehill—and expelling people did the school no good.

Call it, great lady, by another name; An humble modesty, that would not matchA molehill with Olympus.

She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.

SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn.

There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a molehill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it.

THE MOONSTONEWILKIE COLLINS

You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the molehill.

THACKERAYANAWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

As he looks, a little rivulet expands into an impassable gulf, and a molehill becomes a mountain.

He dubbed the great specialist "a verra reasonable fella," who didn't make a mountain out of a molehill.

THE MESSENGERELIZABETH ROBINS

If you choose to make a mountain out of a molehill, you choose to make a mistake which the Executive Committee will not repeat.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985