blow sth out of proportion
to treat a particular event or problem far too seriously:
It's ridiculous - we have a tiny disagreement and you blow the whole thing out of proportion!
Of course, when the papers get hold of a story, it's blown out of all proportion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Exaggerating & playing down
- drama queen
- dramatize
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make a meal (out) of sth idiom
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- soft-pedal
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- talk sth down
- understatement
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