molehill
Example Sentences
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Could we be making a mountain out of a molehill?
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2024
Chris Ryley, who co-runs the pub, said "a mountain has been made out of a molehill" and that the dolls were "part of our history".
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023
Shame on people for making a mountain out of a molehill.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi -- from every mountainside.
From Fox News ● Jan. 17, 2022
In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
