molehill
ˈmoʊˌlhɪl-
(n)
molehill
a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing
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(n)
molehill
A little hill, hillock, mound, or ridge of earth thrown up by moles in burrowing underground. When moles are working near the surface in search of food, the hills become tortuous ridges which may be traced sometimes for many yards with little or no interruption.
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(ns)
Molehill
a little hill or heap of earth cast up by a mole
Make a mountain out of a molehill - If somebody makes a mountain out of a molehill, they exaggerate the importance or seriousness of a problem.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary For mold-warp—A.S. molde, mould, weorpan, to warp.
Proper gearing can make molehill out of mountain. columbiatribune.com
McD's CEO Turns a Gay Molehill Into a Culture War Mountain. cbsnews.com
Is the immigration-bill flap a mountain or a molehill . commonwealmagazine.org
Mac malware: menace or molehill . chron.com
EZ Pour Spout 's lengthy, uncredited arrangements often make a jazz mountain out of a pop or rock molehill. jazztimes.com
EARLY THIS YEAR, climate-change skeptics went on the attack, pointing to two molehills of scandal that they claimed were towering peaks of scientific malfeasance. ashingtonpost.com
With all the words in the English language to choose from, making fun of the New York Board of Education's list of "banned" words might be making a mountain out of a molehill. knoxnews.com
In the last post, Segunda and I continued our quest to negotiate the mountains and molehills of dating. blog.aarp.org
Molehill Politics from the April 17, 2008 issue. nybooks.com
In her detailed and provocative article "Molehill Politics", Elizabeth Drew refers to the unresolved Michigan primary and its potential as a decider. nybooks.com
At the risk of making a mountain out of a molehill we note that here and below, according to standard conventions, “ 0 −→ U −→ V ” and “ V −→ W −→ 0 ” signify that U −→ V and V −→ W are injective and surjective morphisms of A-modules, respectively; in particular, 0 is not considered as an (R, A)-Lie algebra.
Kaehler quantization and reduction
It is a mere molehill in our path. "The King's Esquires" by
He would go off at once and fetch John Trowel and his tools, and they would very soon burrow into the molehill if one existed. "Washed Ashore" by
That is often a mountain to one which is only a molehill to another. "Out in the Forty-Five" by
What a molehill mountain. "Witness to the Deed" by
We won't make mountains out of molehills, eh, Ladybird? "Captain Desmond, V.C." by
The drivers will tell you that these are molehills, which isn't quite true. "Wild Animals at Home" by
Though less elevated than the Alps, the Pyrenees mountains are no molehills. "Bruin" by
I would rather have to fight one mountain than two molehills any day, you get so much more sympathy after the struggle. "Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate" by
He even walked around molehills; they reminded him too much of the soft soil about the trap. "Creatures of the Night" by
Why, I wouldn't undertake to ascertain even the height or depth of a molehill by so uncertain a process. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846" by
And wonder what being had come in his way,
To lie on a molehill and read the day long
And laugh out aloud when he'd finished his song.
Nor doth he brambles or the nettles fear:
He stumbles at the molehills, up he gets,
And runs again, as one bereft of wits;
And all his labour and his large outcry
Is only for a silly butterfly.
To gratify his boyish fond desires,
His tumbling over molehills to attain
His end, namely, his butterfly to gain,
Doth plainly show what hazards some men run
To get what will be lost as soon as won.