molehill

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noun heap, hill

noun. pettiness

noun. unimportance

noun. heap, hill

also mole-hill, mid-15c., from mole (2) + hill (n.).

That is often a mountain to one which is only a molehill to another.

I was a little nettled at having been scared for a molehill.

The newspapers got hold of it and are making a mountain out of a molehill.

He saw now, or thought he saw, that he had been making a mountain out of a molehill.

I soon found my pride was a molehill and my love a mountain.

Oh, it's absurd, you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

A mountain crowned by a molehill could not have looked more ridiculous.

I think were making a mountain out of a molehill, declared Walter.

"I have bidden good-bye to the Gays' molehill," he informed Madame Hanska.

If it amuses you people to make a mountain out of a molehill I can afford to stand it.