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molehills in a field From mole hill make a mountain out of a molehill
molehill (plural molehills
A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground. A small mound of earth
Aragonese: topinera f
Asturian: topinera m
Bulgarian: кърти́чина f ( kărtíčina )
Catalan: talpera f
Czech: krtina (cs) f krtinec (cs) m
Danish: muldvarpeskud n
Dutch: molshoop (nl) m
Estonian: mutimullahunnik
Finnish: myyränmätäs
French: taupinière (fr) f
Galician: toupeira (gl) f toupiñeira (gl) f
German: Maulwurfshügel (de) m Maulwurfshaufen (de) m
Hungarian: vakondtúrás (hu)
Icelandic: moldvörpuhaugur m
Ingrian: ajama
Irish: carnán caochán m
Italian: monticello di terra
Japanese: 土竜塚 もぐらづか
Latvian: kurmja rakums m
Lithuanian: kùrmiarausis m kùrmrausis m
Luxembourgish: Maulefskoup (lb) m
Norman: taupinniéthe f ( Jersey )
Polish: kretowisko (pl) n
Portuguese: monte /montículo de toupeira m
Russian: крото́вина (ru) f ( krotóvina )
Samogitian: kormērausis m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кртичњак m кртовина f
Latin: krtičnjak (sh) m krtovina (sh) f
Slovak: krtinec m krtina f
Slovene: krtína (sl) f
Spanish: topera (es) f topinera f
Swedish: mullvadshög c
Turkish: köstebek deliği köstebek yuvası
Ukrainian: крото́вина f ( krotóvyna ) , кротови́ння f ( krotovýnnja ) , крото́вище f ( krotóvyšče )
Venetan: muxighèr (vec) m
Volapük: talpakum (vo)
molehill (third-person singular simple present molehills present participle molehilling simple past and past participle molehilled
To exaggerate a problem and perceive it as larger or worse than it actually is.
2016 August 4, “Off-hand remark in Rio chafes Chinese Net”, in Global Times [1] the original on 7 March 2020 :As Brazil faced the mountainous task of completing an Olympic venue before the opening ceremony, Chinese netizens got busy molehilling a remark by a Rio construction manager about their China supplier.
