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English Cliché: Make a mountain out of a molehill
It’s really easy to make a mountain out of a molehill.
All you need to do is exaggerate.
To make a mountain out of a molehill means to exaggerate a small problem and treat it as if it were a much larger one.
People are usually very skilled at overstating the importance of something.
We can quickly take a small problem and turn it into a life-or-death situation.
Look at the picture that I’ve chosen for today.
In some cities, such as Vancouver, B.C. or San Francisco, Ca., bicycle theft can be a problem.
Some people ride custom-made $3,000 or $4,000 bicycles, which makes them prime targets for theft.
I think the owner of the tricycle has made a mountain out of a molehill and gone to extremes.
There’s a good chance that nobody will steal a tricycle, especially one with a wonky wheel, as this one does.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 68.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
