molehill

In both cases, the minority party on both committees thinks the majority is making a mountain out of a molehill.
From Waterboarding to Benghazi, CIA Faces Two-Front War by Congress|Eli Lake|April 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is the rawest example yet of our 2013, Twitter-loving, insta-pundit, mountain-out-of-a-molehill media culture.
The Anne Hathaway Hatred Is Out of Control|Kevin Fallon|March 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But is this merely a case of making a mountain out of a molehill—or is there a legitimate reason to be upset?
The Uproar Over No Doubt’s Native American Video Gaffe|Tricia Romano|November 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
From a policy point of view, it seems a ludicrous molehill to struggle over.
THAT'S the Obama Second Term Agenda?!|David Frum|July 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Few diplomatic events are more embarrassing than a summit that turns into a molehill.
The War Over the Global Stimulus|Stryker McGuire|March 13, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Gran'ma said they were making a mounting out of a molehill—and expelling people did the school no good.
The Open Question|Elizabeth Robins
Call it, great lady, by another name; An humble modesty, that would not matchA molehill with Olympus.
The Plays of Philip Massinger|Philip Massinger
She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.
Sons and Lovers|David Herbert Lawrence
To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn.
Essays on Modern Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a molehill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it.
The Moonstone|Wilkie Collins

British Dictionary definitions for molehill

molehill

/ (ˈməʊlˌhɪl) /

noun

the small mound of earth thrown up by a burrowing mole

make a mountain out of a molehill to exaggerate an unimportant matter out of all proportion

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