He makes a mountain out of a molehill.
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Molehill
//ˈməʊlhɪl//
Synonyms for "molehill" (98 found)
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47 translations across 34 languages.
Aragonese
1 entries- topinera noun (A small mound of earth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кърти́чина noun (A small mound of earth)
Catalan
1 entries- talpera noun (A small mound of earth)
Czech
2 entries- krtina noun (A small mound of earth)
- krtinec noun (A small mound of earth)
Danish
1 entries- muldvarpeskud noun (A small mound of earth)
Dutch
1 entries- molshoop noun (A small mound of earth)
Estonian
1 entries- mutimullahunnik noun (A small mound of earth)
Finnish
1 entries- myyränmätäs noun (A small mound of earth)
French
1 entries- taupinière noun (A small mound of earth)
Galician
2 entries- toupeira noun (A small mound of earth)
- toupiñeira noun (A small mound of earth)
German
2 entries- Maulwurfshaufen noun (A small mound of earth)
- Maulwurfshügel noun (A small mound of earth)
Hungarian
1 entries- vakondtúrás noun (A small mound of earth)
Icelandic
1 entries- moldvörpuhaugur noun (A small mound of earth)
Ingrian
1 entries- ajama noun (A small mound of earth)
Irish
1 entries- carnán caochán noun (A small mound of earth)
Italian
1 entries- monticello di terra noun (A small mound of earth)
Japanese
2 entries- もぐらづか noun (A small mound of earth)
- 土竜塚 noun (A small mound of earth)
Latvian
1 entries- kurmja rakums noun (A small mound of earth)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kùrmiarausis noun (A small mound of earth)
- kùrmrausis noun (A small mound of earth)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Maulefskoup noun (A small mound of earth)
Norman
1 entries- taupinniéthe noun (A small mound of earth)
Polish
1 entries- kretowisko noun (A small mound of earth)
Portuguese
1 entries- monte/montículo de toupeira noun (A small mound of earth)
Russian
1 entries- крото́вина noun (A small mound of earth)
Samogitian
1 entries- kormērausis noun (A small mound of earth)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- krtičnjak noun (A small mound of earth)
- krtovina noun (A small mound of earth)
- кртичњак noun (A small mound of earth)
- кртовина noun (A small mound of earth)
Slovak
2 entries- krtina noun (A small mound of earth)
- krtinec noun (A small mound of earth)
Slovene
1 entries- krtína noun (A small mound of earth)
Spanish
2 entries- topera noun (A small mound of earth)
- topinera noun (A small mound of earth)
Swedish
1 entries- mullvadshög noun (A small mound of earth)
Turkish
2 entries- köstebek deliği noun (A small mound of earth)
- köstebek yuvası noun (A small mound of earth)
Ukrainian
3 entries- крото́вина noun (A small mound of earth)
- крото́вище noun (A small mound of earth)
- кротови́ння noun (A small mound of earth)
Venetan
1 entries- muxighèr noun (A small mound of earth)
Volapük
1 entries- talpakum noun (A small mound of earth)
Sample sentences
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She is probably just making a mountain out of a molehill again.
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He's making a mountain out of a molehill. That typo really isn't as bad as he claims.
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Peter always makes a mountain out of a molehill.
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