Choose the meaning of the idiom "make a mountain out of a molehill".

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To make a mountain out of a molehill is to exaggerate a small problem.

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Build something great is a trap from "mountain"; the idiom is a criticism.

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Choose the meaning of the idiom "make a mountain out of a molehill".

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