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From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill
     vb.
     (lb en transitive idiomatic) To treat#Verb a problem as greater than
  it is; to blow out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of
  something trivial.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill
     vb.
     (lb en transitive idiomatic) To treat#Verb a problem as greater than
  it is; to blow out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of
  something trivial.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill
     vb.
     (lb en transitive idiomatic) To treat#Verb a problem as greater than
  it is; to blow out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of
  something trivial.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill
     vb.
     (lb en transitive idiomatic) To treat#Verb a problem as greater than
  it is; to blow out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of
  something trivial.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill
     Englanti vb.
     tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill /mˌeɪk ɐ mˈaʊntɪn ˌaʊtəv ɐ mˈəʊlhɪl/
  aus einer Mücke einen Elefanten machen [übtr.]
     Synonym: make mountains out of molehills
  
   see: gnat, skeeter
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill /mˌeɪk ɐ mˈaʊntɪn ˌaʊtəv ɐ mˈəʊlhɪl/ 
  härkänen, tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen
  to treat a problem as greater than it is

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill /mˌeɪk ɐ mˈaʊntɪn ˌaʊtəv ɐ mˈəʊlhɪl/ 
  gjøre en fjær til fem høns
  to treat a problem as greater than it is

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  make a mountain out of a molehill /mˌeɪk ɐ mˈaʊntɪn ˌaʊtəv ɐ mˈəʊlhɪl/ 
  göra en höna av en fjäder
  to treat a problem as greater than it is

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     夸大其词,大惊小怪,庸人自扰,小题大作

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