blow out of proportion
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Verb
blow out of proportion (third-person singular simple present blows out of proportion, present participle blowing out of proportion, simple past blew out of proportion, past participle blown out of proportion)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
- I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it.
Synonyms
- magnify
- exaggerate
- make a big thing out of
- make a mountain out of a molehill
Translations
overreact or overstate
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See also
- lay it on thick