Usually means: Exaggerate a minor issue significantly.
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  1. make a mountain out of a molehill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make a mountain out of a molehill: Merriam-Webster
  3. make a mountain out of a molehill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make a mountain out of a molehill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. make a mountain out of a molehill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. make a mountain out of a molehill: Wiktionary
  7. make a mountain out of a molehill: Dictionary.com
  8. Make a mountain out of a molehill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. make a mountain out of a molehill: ESL Idiom Page
  10. make a mountain out of a molehill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. make a mountain out of a molehill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. make a mountain out of a molehill: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (make a mountain out of a molehill)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.

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