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Qué (quién) es molehill - definición
Mole hill; Mole-hill
molehill
(molehills)
1.
A molehill is a small pile of earth made by a mole digging a tunnel.
N-COUNT
2.
If you say that someone is making a mountain out of a molehill, you are critical of them for making an unimportant fact or difficulty seem like a serious one.
The British press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.
PHRASE: V and Ns inflect [disapproval]
Molehill
·noun A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty.
molehill
¦ noun a small mound of earth thrown up by a burrowing mole.
Phrases
make a mountain out of a molehill greatly exaggerate the importance of a minor problem.
Wikipedia
Molehill
A molehill (or mole-hill, mole mound) is a conical mound of loose soil raised by small burrowing mammals, including moles, but also similar animals such as mole-rats, and voles. The word is first recorded in the first half of the 15th century. Formerly the hill was known as a 'wantitump', a word still in dialect use for centuries afterwards.
The phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" is commonly used metaphorically to mean "to exaggerate a minor problem".
Ejemplos de uso de molehill
1. Making a mountain out of a molehill? – Barbara Steward, Northumberland.
2. In any case, the hysteria–mongers succeeded all too well, for the mountain became a molehill.
3. The banks defended their answers, accusing Kahlon of making a mountain out of a molehill.
4. Now Katsav‘s advisers are stating that a mountain had been made out of a molehill.
5. It seems that at every opportunity Brown turns a molehill into a mountain.