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Proverbial trifle
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molehill
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Word definitions for molehill in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A molehill (or mole-hill , mole mound ) is a conical mound of loose soil raised by small burrowing mammals , including moles , but also similar animals such as mole-rats , marsupial moles and voles . They are often the only sign to indicate the presence ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also mole-hill , mid-15c., from mole (n.2) + hill (n.).\nTo much amplifying thinges yt. be but small, makyng mountaines of Molehils. [John Foxe, "Acts and Monuments," 1570]
Usage examples of molehill.
So when someone is making a mountain out of a molehill, they are pretending that something is as horrible as a war or a ruined picnic when it is really only as horrible as a stubbed toe.
Fenn scuffed the top of a molehill with his shoe as he raced toward his chosen spot.
Marsh Gordon is merely a molehill that I can crush with the heel of my boot.
She leaned back, wondering if discovering the seed was a molehill or a mountain.
Because the next disaster is Tony Donuts Junior, a goon the size of a mountain with a brain the size of a molehill and a moral sense even smaller.
Ten Commandments, you know, so stop trying to turn a molehill into a mountain!
The reporter skipped over fresh molehills, stumbling once but managing to keep his feet.
How many molehills such as that must first Be piled up each on each, ere you make A mountain equal to the least in Uri?
He was, however, so in the habit of fighting windmills and making mountains of molehills that he could not at first glance see any sudden presentment with a normal vision.
He had a nasty moment or two as the machine bumped over the snow-covered tussocks and molehills with which the pasture was plentifully besprinkled, but kicking on right rudder just before the Camel ran to a standstill he managed to swerve so that it stopped not far from the low hedge which divided the field from the paddock.
He speculated on whether a similar situation was developing between Raphaela and Jaguarundi, and decided he was making a mountain out of the proverbial molehill.
Their suspicions were aroused by every bush, however abject, by every mousehole, by a colony of molehills, and most of all by my grandmother, who sat there as if rooted to the spot, sighing, rolling her eyes so that the whites showed, listing the Kashubian names of all the saints -- all of which seemed to have been brought on by the poor performance of the fire and the overturning of her potato baskets.
I was afraid Nannie would think I was making a mountain out of a molehill, as nurse says.
SIR CHARLES is an upright, wellgroomed, grey-moustached, red-faced man of sixty-seven, with a keen eye for molehills, and none at all for mountains.
There has been a debate on what we will call liturgical formalisms, tempers have flared, but we mustn’t make mountains out of molehills.