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molehills <a molehill; molehills> N

molehill <a molehill; molehills> N

make a mountain out of a molehill VB

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These are molehills that never really resembled mountains.
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There are practical benefits to writing without artificial closure at the end of each book, with one big arc, instead of a series of little arcs, like molehills.
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Recording molehills could indicate the number of moles in an area.
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The species prefers the loamy soils found in thin woods, fields, pastures, and meadows, and builds both deep and shallow burrows characterized by discarded excess soil collected in molehills.
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Dairy farmers don't like them, because the earth from their molehills contaminates the grass cut for silage.
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When digging new burrows, the mole will push excess soil up through vertical shafts called molehills.
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Making mountains out of molehills is his nature.
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He does not reside in molehills but in hatches and teaches new moves in rhymes to a marching song.
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I have been accused of scaremongering, of making volcanic mountains out of inconsequential molehills, of spreading despair and despondency without a shred of hard evidence.
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The second act was enlivened by two dramatic molehills.
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