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In both cases, the minority party on both committees thinks the majority is making a mountain out of a molehill.

It is the rawest example yet of our 2013, Twitter-loving, insta-pundit, mountain-out-of-a-molehill media culture.

But is this merely a case of making a mountain out of a molehill—or is there a legitimate reason to be upset?

From a policy point of view, it seems a ludicrous molehill to struggle over.

Few diplomatic events are more embarrassing than a summit that turns into a molehill.

Gran'ma said they were making a mounting out of a molehill—and expelling people did the school no good.

Call it, great lady, by another name; An humble modesty, that would not matchA molehill with Olympus.

She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.

To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn.

There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a molehill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to molehill, such as: immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, indifference, meanness, and negligibility.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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