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make a mountain out of a molehill is more like crying wolf, isn't it? That is, making a minor problem sound like a major emergency.



Making a mountain out of a molehill is, as you say. making a minor problem seem major. Crying wolf is more like making up a problem where none exists. The story from which it derives is that of a young shepherd boy who cried wolf when there was none just to get attention and eventually people decided that there was no wolf when there really was one.



so, for instance, which class would the following statement fall into, mountain or wolf:

>>Oops this is getting confusing: PF is a site for phrases only; AWAD for words only



I wouldn't say it belongs in either category.