blow out of proportion

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Verb

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat#Verb|treat too seriously or be overly concern#Verb|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

• Italian: ingigantire
• Spanish: cargar las tintas

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