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 Translation for 'molehill' from English to French
NOUN   a molehill | molehills
taupinière {f}molehill
Ne va pas chercher midi à quatorze heure ! [loc.]Don't make a mountain out of a molehill! [idiom]
se noyer dans un verre d'eau [loc.]to make a mountain out of a molehill [idiom]
faire une montagne d'une taupinière [loc.]to make a mountain out of a molehill [idiom]
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Usage Examples English
  • Radice wrote of the discrepancy between the small amount of "secret talk" cited by Kripal (18 occurrences) and the amount of analysis he derived from them, and asked "Has Kripal made a mountain out of molehill?
  • As the particle velocity sensors have broad banded directionality, also for lower frequencies, the large (ground based) sensor post can be shrunk to the size of a "molehill".
  • Chelsea accuses her of making a mountain out of a molehill, Denise however listens intently.
  • In recent years essential conservation repairs have been carried out on the ruins and visits to the site have been facilitated by the laying out of a new car park and access paths, while large numbers of volunteers undertook graffiti recording, molehill and wildlife surveys, and maintenance and provided guides.
  • Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue.

  • The phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" is commonly used metaphorically to mean "to exaggerate a minor problem".
  • Foodwatch claims that Danone "makes a mountain out of a molehill" in suggesting that Actimel protects from cold and boosts health.
  • "Tump" is Worcestershire dialect for a small hill and may be derived from the Welsh language word Twmpath. An "unty tump" is a molehill, "unty" being local dialect for a mole.
  • She testified before the Minnesota Legislature in March 2010 that "Utah's 1994 reforms turned its school trust fund from a poorly managed, oft-raided 'molehill' into a 'gold mine' worth $1 billion".
  • These ants live in nests in sandy soil which sometimes have a mound, which resembles a molehill.

  • Hindu-baiters are making a mountain out of a molehill while they themselves thrive under the shade of foreign funds".
  • Brown predicted that winning the general election would be just "a little bit of a molehill", but he lost to Hogan by a margin of 65,510 votes in the Democratic-leaning state.
  • Club" writer Donna Bowman said "even though these three molehill versions took a while to get cranked up, they provide satisfying and even elegant expressions of what the art of Modern Family is all about".
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