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out of all proportion

a. (alternative form of out of proportion English)

Usage examples of "out of all proportion".

By both parties the possession of Sluys was regarded as a matter of importance out of all proportion to the size and population of the town.

His speech was slow and mellow, measured and unexcited, his gestures were wide, and new teeth gave him a vulpine smile out of all proportion to his emotion.

I thrust her away with outstretched hands, and my hands seemed to touch the books in the case opposite, or to grow out of all proportion.

Like many Iranian conspiracy theories, this one contained a grain of truth that had been stretched out of all proportion.

Conquer your feelings and be on your guard against letting one vice mar the many good qualities you possess and sullying the grace of all your services by a fault which is out of all proportion to its cause.

Its functioning increases out of all proportion to the rest of the organism.

Neither the Horse Stealers nor the Bloody Swords were all that numerous compared to the populations of the human-dominated lands which bordered their own, but any army of hradani had an impact out of all proportion to its mere size.

His mother tells him there are no giants, so the child's injured ego demands that he elaborate, exaggerate the giant out of all proportion.