blow out of proportion

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

blow out of proportion (third-person singular simple present blows out of proportion, present participle blowing out of proportion, simple past blew out of proportion, past participle blown out of proportion)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.

   I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it.

Synonyms

• magnify
• exaggerate
• make a big thing out of
• make a mountain out of a molehill

Translations

overreact or overstate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小題大作 / 小题大作 (zh) (xiǎotídàzuò)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: liioitella (fi), paisutella (fi), tehdä numero
• Italian: ingigantire (it)
• Spanish: cargar las tintas
• Welsh: gwneud môr a mynydd

See also

• lay it on thick