小题大作

小题大作 [xiǎo tí dà zuò]

1. ■ make a fuss over a trifling matter; a fuss about a trifle; a great fuss about trifles; a fuss about nothing [a trifling matter]; a great disturbance about a trifle; a long harvest about [for] a little corn; a storm in a tea cup; a tempest in a teapot [barrel; bucket]; break [crush] a fly [a butterfly] on the wheel; great [much] cry and little wool; make a fun about [over] trifles; make a mountain out of a molehill; much ado about nothing; strain at a gnat; use a sledge-hammer on a gnat; too much of a little matter